Toolbox Doesn't Work With Viking I Monitor

David Robbins dcr0 at bunny.UUCP
Wed Nov 30 07:02:25 AEST 1988


I have an A/UX Macintosh II with a Moniterm Viking I Monitor.  Everything
works just fine and dandy, except for one little detail: the A/UX Toolbox
does not seem to notice that there is a mouse attached to the machine.  If
I launch a Mac application in A/UX, it puts itself up on the screen just
like it should, but the cursor doesn't respond to the mouse.  The application
responds perfectly well to the keyboard, but not to the mouse.  I gather
from Grasshopper's NeWS documentation that there is something called an
"A/UX Mouse Driver" which needs to be present, but may not exist for some
monitors.  I asked a technical phone person at Moniterm about this, but he
seemed to be unaware of the problem (as though noone had yet complained
about it).

The problem is clearly not that A/UX is totally unable to read the mouse,
because I have X11R3 working just super fine and dandy -- responding to the
mouse and all that.  My questions, then, are the following:

1) Is there really something lacking that Moniterm ought to have put into
   their ROMs (or ought to have supplied to be loaded into A/UX)?

2) Is there some reasonably straightforward magic incantation I can speak
   at A/UX to convince the toolbox that there really is a mouse out there?

I'll be happy to share any responses I get with the net (unless I'm the
only person on the net who is having this problem :-).

Dave Robbins                    GTE Laboratories Incorporated
drobbins at gte.com                40 Sylvan Rd.
...!harvard!bunny!drobbins      Waltham, MA 02254
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Dave Robbins                    GTE Laboratories Incorporated
drobbins at gte.com                40 Sylvan Rd.
...!harvard!bunny!drobbins      Waltham, MA 02254



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