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echo: os2prog
to: Coridon Henshaw
from: Mikael Kjellstrm
date: 1996-03-12 22:44:52
subject: Scroll question

> MK> It has NOTHING to do with that.  The mousepointer isn't flickering.
 > It's the
 > MK> positioning of the mouse pointer thats get close to no CPU at all.
 >
 > I don't have this problem on my system.  The mouse pointer jumps a very
 > small amount over a free-scrolling area of the screen, but it remains
 > fully-responsive at all times.

May I ask you what kind of videocard you have?


 > I have the same results with both CMD.EXE and 4OS/2.  The only time I've
 > had weird mouse behavior when scrolling is when I was using the ET4000
 > (non w32? drivers. (which are installed by default for ET4000w32? cards
 > unless you override the setting)

Are you running in a accelerated videomode or are you running standard VGA
(640x480x16)?


 > My disk system is all SCSI, so that might explain the low-impact that any
 > disk access has on the mouse pointer.

I don't think so.  I have a Pentium 120MHz, 32MB memory with a Adaptec 2940
PCI SCSI-controller.

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