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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Making X work on Interactive 386/ix
Message-ID: <545@newave.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 05:02:53 GMT
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In <1607@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
> In <4572@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> dipto@umbc3.umbc.edu (Dipto Chakravarty) writes:
> - We have a Microsoft serial mouse and a high-performance Microfield
> - V8 graphics card on the system, ... but, the mouse drags are at a 
> - lag of 3-4 seconds behind!
>
> Something is horribly wrong with your system.

Just a whim, but check to see what interrupt you are using for the mouse.
I tried my tape drive on interrupt 2, and it did not work.  I changed it
to 9, and it works fine.  The sympthoms were similar--it sort of worked,
but real slow.  A net neighbor had a similar problem with his mouse.

-john-

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