Deja News Toolbar Become a better developer with a little help from IBM. Become a better developer with a little help from IBM. message/thread Message 284 of 305 for search * return to search results help Re: 1351 mouse only works in joystick mode with GEOS Author: Christopher Hume Date: 1999/02/12 Forum: comp.sys.cbm more headers author posting history post reply prev next _________________________________________________________________ In article , rrcc@u.washington.edu says... > > Thanks for the response. In 128 mode, I tried all three voices of the > > SID... All three voices played fine. > > > As for the mouse pointer, when the mouse is in proportional mode, > > with the appropriate driver, the pointer will move up and down, but > > not sideways. Any more help is appreciated. Thanks again for the help. > > Chris, > OK. From that, you know the mouse is getting power, one direction > works and the software driver is working. If the mouse gets used a lot, it > could have a broken wire inside the cable. Wires usually break near the Could very well be as I got it from a thrift shop to replace my M3 (1351 compatible) mouse that no longer works (probably due to old age). > mouse (where the wires get flexed the most). Assuming you don't have > another mouse or graphics tablet or paddle to try, you may want to check I do have one, but as explained above, it's also not working either. The M3's pointer jumps and down the screen when plugged in using a 1351- supporting program. :-( > the mouse in the other port. Run up the test program on the demo disk that > came with it. If that works, the problem might be the 4066 chip in the > computer. If it's still bad and you have an ohmmeter, you can do a Still bad in port 2 as well. Actually, before posting my problem to comp.sys.cbm, it worked fine in port 2 for a while, then stopped working in that port, then it begin working in port 1 again, now it won't work in either port. > continuity check of the mouse wiring. Pin 5 is used for up and down > movement, and pin 9 is for side to side movement... the pin you want to > check in this case. It might be open circuit. If so, you might repair it by > cutting off the cable ahead of the break and soldering all the wires back > into the mouse. If the wiring checks out OK, you need another mouse as a > substitute to make sure that one is in fact bad. They do fail like that > sometimes. Good hunting! Watch out for the 5 volt line. If accidently > shorted to ground, it can kill chips in the computer. Since I'm not very good with this sort of thing, I'm glad a have a friend and neighbor who is far better and can help me with this part (don't want my computer to go bad either. I just want to determine whether it's the computer or the mouse that is the problem. If it's the mouse, it can be easily replaced. As for the computer, that's more difficult as I got the 128 from a thrift shop for an excellent price and haven't see another 128 in there since; they're hard to come by there :-( ). Again, thanks for the help. Chris _________________________________________________________________ view for bookmarking text only mail this message to a friend post reply << prev · next >> subscribe to comp.sys.cbm SPONSORED LINKS Yellow Pages · Save$$ at uBid · Express by Infoseek · Shopping · Free Stuff AutoConnect · Trade with Datek · Auctions & Classifieds · GET IT NOW @ NECX Home · Communities · My Deja News · Power Search · Post About Deja News · Ad Info · Our Advertisers · Deja News Store ____________________________________________________ Copyright © 1995-99 Deja News, Inc. All rights reserved. Conditions of use · Site privacy statement reviewed by TRUSTe