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to: TREVOR DAVIS
from: STEPHEN HAFFLY
date: 1998-04-18 14:24:00
subject: Mouse on com3 problems?

On (14 Apr 98) Trevor Davis wrote to All...
 TD> well the problem is when the power goes off ,no UPS :-(
 TD> and the machine fires up when it comes back on, when trying to load
 TD> the SIO drivers it says com1 is in use, this then locks up the system
 TD> with an error message about the com port violation.
 TD> If I warm boot the next time it can be ok, sometimes not but after a
 TD> few warm boots it works ok.
 TD> I'll probably end up using the PS/2 mouse port but I'd like to know
 TD> why it boots up this way and a way to reserve com3 for the mouse.
Make sure the mouse commands are before the SIO/VSIO/VX00 commands and
it should work.
TTYL,
Stephen
Team OS/2, Team GEOS
OS/2 & New Deal Office 98 - A great combination.
... I don't do Windows
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