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to: Garth Ramsay
from: Eddy Thilleman
date: 1999-10-02 11:59:17
subject: Logitech TrackMan Marble

Hello Garth,

29 Sep 99 08:57, Garth Ramsay wrote to ALL:

GR> I just purchased a Logitech M-S48... 3 button mouse + scroll wheel

I've a Logitech Pilot+ with two real buttons and one scroll wheel which can
also be used as a 3rd button.

GR> no drivers available from Logitech (that I could find).

There are no OS/2 drivers from Logitech (AFAIK).

GR> the mouse.sys file included in this is 23721 file date 4.29.99

I've here

29-04-99 12:44         23.721      0 a---  MOUSE.SYS

This is the mouse driver with the support for the scroll wheel.

GR> Running warp 4, fixpack 11

Running Warp 4, fixpack 9

GR> Aopen AX6BC motherboard, 128mb PC100 ram, Intel Celeron 300A cpu

Gigabyte GA-686BX mainboard, 128 MB PC100 RAM, Intel Pentium II 350 MHz

GR> Matrox G200 video card...   So far works fine... ;->

Matrox G200 AGP with BIOS v2.3 and Matrox driver 2.21.

GR> After installing this driver using the install routine when I reboot
GR> my computer the workplace shell starts to load and just hangs..

I don't have any problem with it. The install here was OK from the start.

GR> After the screen goes from the default blue background to my colour
GR> I'm left looking at an empty screen.

You can press the Alt-F2 keys while the white blob in the upper left corner of 
the screen is visible, this shows which driver is loading.

GR> The worst part is I'm forced to do a complete reinstall after...
...........snip...........
GR> No error messages no nothing (that I could find).

No traps? No dumps in \POPUPLOG.OS2 on your bootdrive?

...........snip...........

GR> I'm slowly pulling out what little hair I have left.

GR> Help... I'm wheel-less in Canada.

I don't know what went wrong on your system.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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