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- From: kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing)
- Subject: Spaceball and 4.0.5
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.175714.14367@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:57:14 GMT
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- Hello there,
- we currently have a 4D-220 VGX with a spaceball attached. After changing to
- 4.0.5, we noticed some differences regarding the spaceball:
-
- - we can't emulate the mouse using the spaceball; this was possible in 3.x
-
- - the spaceball data format and programming interface seems to have
- changed, since a locally written application that used to work fine
- with the spaceball notww has problems such as long latency between moving
- the spaceball and seeing the result on screen and loosing events.
-
- - Occasionally we get SYSLOG errors of the form
- Jan 13 11:25:41 gt unix: WARNING: data event with unknown format.
- Jan 13 11:25:41 gt unix: WARNING: Bad length for data event (14 words)
-
- Does anybody use a spaceball with 4.0.5 or knows what exactly has changed
- or where to get information ?
- Thanks a lot,
-
- --
-
- Rainer Kleinrensing, rainer@indigo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
- Institute for Applied Mathematics
- Freiburg University
-