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- OS/2 2.x POINTING DEVICE INSTALLATION DOCUMENT
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- GENERAL MOUSE DRIVER INFORMATION
-
- Type HELP MOUSE at an OS/2 prompt.
-
-
- INSTALLING YOUR POINTING DEVICE During installation, the mouse device
- driver will attempt to detect your pointing device. If it does you will
- NOT receive a mouse selection panel during diskette 2. It is highly
- recommended that you do NOT go into the PM mouse panel to change things if
- you are not prompted to do so.
-
- CONFIG.SYS STATEMENTS For most of the common pointing devices that are MSC,
- using int 33h, that are out today the OS/2 2.x CONFIG.SYS line for mouse
- support is simply:
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
-
- There are some older Logitech Devices (i.e. Trackman) that are not
- detectable by MOUSE.SYS. These devices are still supported.
-
- The CONFIG.SYS lines for undetectable Logitech devices and PC Mouse System
- Mice are:
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCLOGIC.SYS SERIAL=COM1 DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS TYPE=PCLOGIC$
-
- If the device is plugged into COM 1 or com2 then change the SERIAL=
- parameter to COM2, COM3 respectively. There have been cases where it was
- necessary to place the TYPE=xxxxxx statement after the
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\VMOUSE.SYS line as well, this is done usually if your mouse
- does not work under DOS or Windows but works fine under OS/2 v2. Also, to
- fix Logitech Trackman not working in OS2 DOS VDM and WINOS2, simply REM out
- the MOUSE.COM statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root drive where
- OS/2 v2 is installed.
-
- NOTE: On an AT bus system a serial mouse will only install on COM1 or
- COM2, and only if COM1 and COM2 are at the standard I/O addresses and IRQs,
- 3F8,IRQ4 for COM1 and 2F8,IRQ3 form COM2.
-
- The following pointing devices have been tested and verified to work.
- Included are the CONFIG.SYS statements for each entry.
-
-
- DEVICE CONFIG.SYS Statements
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- IBM PS/2 Mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
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- MS PS/2 Mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
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- MS Serial Mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
-
- Kensington Expert PS/2 Mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
- (NOTE:This is not the same as
- the Kensington serial mouse!!!)
-
- Logitech PS/2 Mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
-
- MS Bus Mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
- (NOTE: This mouse requires a
- special card that only works on
- an AT style bus.)
-
- MS Inport Mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
- (NOTE: This mouse requires a
- special card that only works on
- an AT style bus.)
-
- Logitech Serial Mouse (Series M) DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
-
- Logitech Serial Mouse (Series C) DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCLOGIC.SYS SERIAL=COM1
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS TYPE=PCLOGIC$
-
-
- Logitech Trackman serial mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCLOGIC.SYS SERIAL=COM2
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS TYPE=PCLOGIC$
-
-
- PC Mouse Systems serial mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCLOGIC.SYS SERIAL=COM2
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS TYPE=PCLOGIC$
-
- PC Mouse Systems bus mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\MSBUS01.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS TYPE=MSBUS$
-
- Visi-On serial mouse DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCLOGIC.SYS SERIAL=COM2
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS TYPE=PCLOGIC$
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-
- NOTE: The mouse driver is smart enough to figure out if the mouse is in a
- mouse port or one of the COM ports. Be sure that the MOUSE.SYS statement
- appears before DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file if the mouse
- is in a COM port.
-
- ALSO: You can get the MSBUS01.SYS driver from a set of OS/2 1.3 diskettes
- as it does not come with OS/2 v2.x! It is usually found on diskette 1
- (first one after the install disk) of your OS/2 1.3 diskettes. You will
- need to unpack it using the UNPACK command before using it.
-
- There are hundreds of pointing devices available today. Most of these are
- Microsoft compatible. If they are 100% MS compatible we support them with
- the following CONFIG.SYS statement DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS.
-
- We have found that some devices are not 100% compatible and therefore are
- not supported.
-
- The mouse device driver is layered allowing an OEM to easily add support
- for there pointing device. By writing a small mouse device dependent
- driver they can get there device to work with OS/2 2.x. Please contact the
- OEM manufacturer to find out if they provide a device driver for OS/2 2.x.
-
- An example of an OEM manufacturer that provides OS/2 2.x support is Hewlett
- Packard. HP provides HILMOU.SYS and NOEXBIOS.SYS device drivers. Below
- are the instructions for adding support for your HP "HIL" mouse:
-
- 1- Select any mouse during system installation 2- Copy HILMOU.SYS and
- NOEXBIOS.SYS to C:\OS2\ (these are supplied by the manufacturer) 3- Modify
- CONFIG.SYS with the following in the order shown:
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\NOEXBIOS.SYS DEVICE=C:\OS2\HILMOU.SYS DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
- TYPE=HILMOU$ (THIS LINE SHOULD ALREADY BE IN CONFIG.SYS BUT WILL NEED
- TYPE=... ADDED)
-
-
- During install the mouse device driver will attempt to detect your pointing
- device. If it does you will NOT receive a mouse selection panel during
- diskette 2. It is highly recommended that you do NOT go into the PM mouse
- panel to change things if you are not prompted to do so. We are finding
- out that many customers are messing things up by forcing a different device
- type then what was detected. A prime example of this is the Logitech
- series M mouse. This mouse is compatible with the MS serial mouse and will
- be detected. The mouse panel will read MS Serial Mouse. A lot of
- customers are then going into the PM panel and choosing Logitech Serial.
- This choice will add the PCLOGIC.SYS driver which does NOT work for the
- Logitech series M mouse. The bottom line is if you are not prompted for
- any mouse information leave well enough alone.
-
-
- MISCELLANEOUS
-
- OS/2 Level 2.5 & 3 Support recommend that users select PS/2 Pointing
- Device when installing & selectively re-installing no matter what pointing
- device users have. This driver is intelligent and can figure out what
- mouse is being used.
-
- Logitech Technical Support Phone Number: 510-795-0427.
-
- Logitech says that an OS/2-specific mouse/trackman/etc driver is due
- between October and December of 1992.
-
- It is recommended that bus mice be set to IRQ5 (interrupt request line
- 5), definitely not IRQ7.
-
- MOUSE PROBLEM DETERMINATION
-
- Some common problems with pointing devices are noted in this section.
-
-
- PROBLEM: No mouse pointer movement or no mouse pointer. An error is
- received upon boot up: SYS1201 VMOUSE.SYS not installed.
-
- EXPLANATION: This means that mouse.sys was installed but could not find
- the mouse. If it can not find a connected mouse, then it will not install
- vmouse.sys. (It does not mean that vmouse.sys was not found as the error
- implies.)
-
- Either the install program could not correctly determine what type of mouse
- it was, or could not determine that a mouse was indeed present.
-
- RESOLUTION(S): An undetected mouse problem can be due to one of the
- following four reasons:
-
- 1. An unsupported type of mouse Check to see if there are any dip switches
- on the mouse. Some mice have settable switches that put it into MicroSoft
- Mouse emulation mode.
-
- Determine what mouse driver was being used in DOS. If it is not the
- MOUSE.COM provided by DOS, then the mouse may be operating in a proprietary
- mode.
-
-
- 2. If there was mouse support during the graphical install portion of the
- installation process, then you probably changed the mouse driver/port that
- OS/2 had already chosen. Run the Selective Install program found in the
- OS/2 System/System Setup folder and choose a different driver.
-
- 3. An interrupt conflict Check the interrupts. On an AT bus system, a
- serial mouse will only install on COM1 and COM2, and only if COM1 and COM2
- are at the standard I/O addresses and IRQs: COM1= 3F8, IRQ4 and COM2= 2F8,
- IRQ3
-
- 4. A bus mouse that is not being detected. See the following problem.
-
-
- PROBLEM: A bus mouse won't install.
-
- EXPLANATION: This may be due to one of the following:
-
- 1. Some bus mouse connections use IRQ0 which is the same as that used by
- the system timer. This is common when the mouse port is on the
- motherboard. -A serial mouse (or possibly a serial connection adapter,
- depending on hardware compatibility) is a necessary workaround.
-
- 2. There is a problem with the autodetection software in OS/2 and some bus
- mice. This results in the system not "seeing" the mouse at install and
- thus it will not work. -The driver, MSBUS01.SYS from version 1.3 solves
- this problem for many bus mice that are Microsoft compatible. Obtain
- 13MOUSE fix. Note: If this is a 3-button mouse, only 2 buttons will work.
-
- 3. Some machines do not use the 8042 keyboard/mouse chip to communicate
- with the mouse and keyboard ports (IBM spec for a PS/2 port). They are,
- therefore, not supported. (For example, Leading Technology uses a Samsung
- motherboard with a proprietary chip. The mouse plugged into the mouse port
- on a Leading Technology machine will not work.) -Use a serial mouse.
-
-
-
- ADDITIONAL PROBLEM DETERMINATION
-
- Issue a MODE COMx (where x is 1 or 2) from an OS/2 or DOS command prompt.
- This is a test of the COM ports:
-
- If it reports that the port (the one the mouse is attached to) is NOT
- available, then MOUSE.SYS is LOADED. This means that the drivers are
- correct; don't change the CONFIG.SYS statements.
-
- If it reports the baud rate and all the other COM port parameters, then
- MOUSE.SYS did not recognize the mouse and did NOT Load.
-
-
-
- PROBLEM: Logitech Mouse doesn't function under OS/2 when installed with
- the Logitech drivers.
-
- EXPLANATION: Most Logitech mice emulate Microsoft mice and use the PS/2
- Pointing Device.
-
- RESOLUTION: The CONFIG.SYS should contain the following statement:
- DEVICE=C: OS2 MOUSE.SYS (do not specify TYPE=...)
-
- When a user selects a wrong mouse (Logitech serial, for example), then goes
- back via selective install and changes the selection (to PS/2 pointing
- device, for example), the statement: DEVICE=C:\OS2\PCLOGIC.SYS is left in
- the CONFIG.SYS and the mouse will not work. The user must edit CONFIG.SYS
- and remove the offending statement by hand, leaving only the MOUSE.SYS and
- POINTDD.SYS statements in CONFIG.SYS.
-
-
- PROBLEM: After having been in DOS, the mouse does not work when booting to
- OS/2.
-
- EXPLANATION: Mouse has a "memory" that remembers the mode it was in
- previously.
-
- RESOLUTION: Before leaving the DOS environment, issue the command MOUSE
- PC. (If the mouse is in COM2, type MOUSE 2 PC.
-
- Sometimes, for Logitech mice, the command needed is LMOUSE PC or LMOUSE 2
- PC). You can also perform a cold boot after exiting DOS. The third
- suggestion is to unplug the mouse and plug it back in after a few seconds,
- then boot to OS/2 to reset the mouse to Mouse Systems mouse mode.
-
-
- PROBLEM: MOUSE.SYS loads fine but VMOUSE.SYS does not load.
-
- RESOLUTION: If this is a dual boot machine, make sure the user is NOT
- loading the DOS MOUSE.SYS.
-
-
- PROBLEM: No mouse pointer in a VMB, a specific DOS BOOT session.
-
- RESOLUTION: Use the MOUSE.COM provided in OS2 MDOS subdirectory.
-
-
-
- PROBLEM: Can't use alternate pointing devices.
-
-
- RESOLUTION: There is an undocumented function in the mouse device driver.
- If you have some alternate pointing device such as a tablet or touch
- screen, you may use it in addition to the regular mouse pointing device.
-
- 1) Install the device driver for the device with the appropriate DEVICE=
- statement in CONFIG.SYS (this must be an OS/2 device driver.)
-
- 2) Add the following to the end of the DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS line:
-
- STYPE=xxxxxx$ where the xxxxx$ is the name of the device (from the device
- driver manual)
-
- 3) Upon reboot, both pointing devices will be active.
-
-
- PROBLEM: The mouse gets out of sync on a 50 MHz Systems (AT bus).
-
- RESOLUTION: There have been some intermittent problems with AT-style bus
- machines with a mouse. The mouse can get out of sync. Input will function
- through the keyboard and the mouse, but it is recommended to shutdown the
- system and restart to "resync" the mouse.
-
-
- PROBLEM: A 3-button mouse doesn't have three working buttons.
-
- EXPLANATION: The support is there for some of these mice at the device
- driver level but is not implememted for OS/2.
-
-
- PROBLEM: The mouse pointer suddenly zips over to the side of the screen
- and hangs there, no longer responding to any mouse movements. In most
- cases, a cold boot has been the only remedy.
-
- EXPLANATION: This is caused by a hardware glitch and cannot be prevented
- from happening but can be recovered from without a cold boot being required
- by using a special version of the mouse driver.
-
- RESOLUTION: Obtain WILDMOUS fix from IBM's NSC BBS or OS/2 Support.
-
-
-
-
- PROBLEM: The PS/2 Mouse on a PS/2 machine is responding too slow.
-
- RESOLUTION: Obtain FASTMOUS fix.
-