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From: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: mouse usage in DOS box
Message-ID: <7043@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 91 02:11:27 GMT
Reply-To: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Organization: Purdue University
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I talked to someone at IBM today.  She said that she used Windows 3.0 in her
DOS box under OS/2 1.2x and 1.3.  I couldn't.  So I read...

I noticed that several video modes were mentioned in the mouse driver help.
An older version of OS/2 (1.1?) didn't give mouse support to programs operating
in EGA mode.  (I think that's correct.)  I finally decided that using a 256
color (Sota) VGA driver could be the problem.  It was.  I now use the standard
VGA setting and have no problems with the mouse.  (Nor do I get a funky screen
when I switch back to OS/2.)

I look forward to experimenting with the 256-color drivers I've been promised
with the Northgate boxes I've ordered.

--kyler