RE: Bdi and serial mouse

[Kurtis Martineau <klmartineau-at-shaw.ca>]

Thanks to all,

Problem 1: trying to use a ps/2 mouse with a ps/2 to serial adapter on a
serial port.  Once I grabed the right ( serial ) mouse it worked fine.

Problem 2: I needed to be able to set up for an optical ps/2 mouse.  I
couldn't get the ps/2 mouse header on the mother board to detect a ps/2
mouse even after BDI was complete.  The pc was old and slow anyway so I
pushed that one aside and tried again with a PIII 667MHz system.  So far -
so good...nice and quick too.

Thanks again,

Kurtis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Tim & Heather Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:18 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Bdi and serial mouse
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> I had the same problem when I installed BDI on one of my pc's.
>
> As Paul says just tab around the screens, and use + & -.
>
> Even though I selected the mouse at the "mouse config" area the mouse
> only began to worked when testing a screen resolution (one of the
> optons at
> the screen config area).
> However it work fine at the end of the installation after the PC rebooted.
>
>
> TimS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul <paul-at-bdiemc.fslife.co.uk>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Date: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Bdi and serial mouse
>
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>
> Hi Kurtis
>
> Mmm.. Good question - I had to boot an install CD to work this one out.
>
> First off. Is the mouse a known working one and is it plugged in to COM1
> (are
> the com ports enable in the BIOS?) ??
>
> Using the Tab key, you can cycle through the various buttons and boxes on
> each screen - Once in a menu box, the cursor keys can be used to scroll up
> and down the list. To expand on one particular sub group, use the Plus and
> Minus keys.
>
> I would suggest getting the mouse working via the mouse
> Configuration screen
> as it makes life much easier during the install, and also avoids a lot of
> hassle trying to set it up manually later.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
> P.S. cc'ing to the EMC list as it may be of interest to others.. See if I
> get
> bounced as well ;-(
>
> On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 4:39 pm, Kurtis Martineau wrote:
> > I am going through the bdi2-18 configuration process with a pc
> that has a
> > serial mouse on com1. The configuration process didn't pick up the mouse
> > and I get hung up on the monitor configuration section because I can't
> > figure out how to expand the selection tree to choose my
> monitor. I don't
> > have mouse control to click on anything.
>
> --
>
> "To err is human...to really f*** things up requires the root password."
> >From a collection of quotes at http://www.indigo.org/quotes.html
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