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Re: Risc OS 6, Unipod & Logitech mouse

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Dave Plowman (News)

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Oct 17, 2009, 2:12:08 PM10/17/09
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Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> Has anyone had experience of this, or issues with Unipods and ROS6? Any
> ideas?

I had so many issues with RO6 on my RPC with Unipod I went back to 4.39
and sold it.

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Doug Webb

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Oct 17, 2009, 2:42:10 PM10/17/09
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"Dave Plowman (News)" <da...@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <mpro.kro7jm...@ypical.nospam.invalid>,
> Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
>> Has anyone had experience of this, or issues with Unipods and ROS6? Any
>> ideas?

> I had so many issues with RO6 on my RPC with Unipod I went back to 4.39
> and sold it.

Well to counter that I have absolutely no issue on my Kinetic machine
which has a full functioning Unipod and the latest version of RISC OS
6, though the "noise" you make about your issue could give one the
wrong impression of RISC OS 6 and Unipod.

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Theo Markettos

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Oct 17, 2009, 3:52:11 PM10/17/09
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Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> After much faffing wondering why the menu button won't work on some iconbar
> icons, I've discovered that the issue relates to the receiver of my Logitech
> wireless USB mouse. With it plugged in to the Unipod neither the USB mouse
> nor an Acorn quadrature mouse will menu on the task manager or several other
> icons, though they will on some. This, of course, has forced me back to the
> Acorn mouse. I've had no problem with the Logitech on 4.39.

That sounds very odd. Can you establish where the menu button is active and
where it isn't? For example, by pressing F12 and doing:

*BASIC
10MOUSE ON
20REPEAT
30MOUSE x,y,b
40PRINT x,y,b
50UNTIL 0

Move the pointer around and see which buttons work on which areas of the
screen.

Simtec USB injects events into the pointer queue, which is why it works
irrespective of the configured MouseType. So it's possible something has
changed in the queue format, but I'm surprised it only fails in some areas
of the screen.

Theo

Chris Hughes

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Oct 17, 2009, 4:26:37 PM10/17/09
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"Dave Plowman (News)" <da...@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <mpro.kro7jm...@ypical.nospam.invalid>,
> Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
>> Has anyone had experience of this, or issues with Unipods and ROS6? Any
>> ideas?

> I had so many issues with RO6 on my RPC with Unipod I went back to 4.39
> and sold it.

Well I have two machines here with RISC OS 6.16 and Unipod - no
problems at all. Plus we have two club machines again no problems.

Biggest thing to remember is to put the necessary USB files etc back
into !boot, then all is well.


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Theo Markettos

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Oct 17, 2009, 7:10:04 PM10/17/09
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Theo Markettos <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Simtec USB injects events into the pointer queue, which is why it works
> irrespective of the configured MouseType. So it's possible something has
> changed in the queue format, but I'm surprised it only fails in some areas
> of the screen.

Thought... you aren't running in a much bigger video mode than before, are
you? Perhaps with a V-Pod?

Theo

Dave Plowman (News)

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Oct 17, 2009, 7:10:03 PM10/17/09
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Perhaps if decent instructions had been provided all might have been well.

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