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From: d88-eli@nada.kth.se (Erik Liljencrantz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EGA & Mouse Problem. Help Needed!
Message-ID: <2349@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 20 Nov 89 14:38:27 GMT
References: <863@cybaswan.UUCP> <1488@cc.helsinki.fi>
Reply-To: d88-eli@nada.kth.se (Erik Liljencrantz)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1488@cc.helsinki.fi> VANHAESKOLA@cc.helsinki.fi (Jari 'Jarppa' Vanha-Eskola) writes:
>In article <863@cybaswan.UUCP>, iiitird@cybaswan.UUCP (Ian R.W.Dixon) writes:
>> I have an ATI EGA Wonder card and colour monitor in use with
>> a Genius mouse. The monitor is set to mode 16 (10Hex), 640*350
>> pixels, 4 colour. The mouse graphics cursor is erasing or changing
>> the colour of the screen graphics underneath it.
> This problem only occurs using Genius mouse's own driver. The only
> solution I have found is to boot up the computer with the mouse in
> Microsoft mode and then using Microsoft's mouse driver. 

I have the same hardware (ATI EGA & Genious) and my solution (when writing
programs myself) is to first set the graphics mode and then initialize the
mouse driver. If I do it the other way (first initialize mouse and then set
graphics mode) the result is as described above...

But Microsoft Word (5.0) is another story. I believe it uses some undocumented
or in the Genious case, unsupported calls to the mousedriver. Using the MS
driver might correct this problem...
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