Two annoying problems

I’ve just installed QNX a couple of minutes ago and, well, it doesn’t work.

Problem One, The Mouse:
The cursors skips around the screen when I move the mouse, and sometimes
when I DONT move the mouse. It also sends false mouseclick data, resulting
in diffrent windows popping up here and there.
I think its related to the CPU load, since its more prone to “skipping
around the screen”
when I open a program, or generally do something else besides just moving
the cursor.
This was amusing for 30 seconds, but now I’m planning the death of my mouse.

Problem Two, The Graphic Device:
I have a Matrox Millenium (4 or 8 MB RAM), and QNX finds it, and asks me
to set the videomode. (It also finds VGA and VESA). Problem is that when I
select any driver
except VGA (640x480 4-bit color) QNX restarts the driver and crashes
horribly, making loud
beeping-noises at regular intervals. Doesn’t matter which combination of
depth, resolution or refreshrate
I use, it still crashes.

Suggestions?

Thomas “Turbofish” Hellstrom
turbofish@swipnet.se

Oh, I should add:
Its a Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM, Dell screen, and some sort of three-button
logitech mouse
with a scroller.


“Turbofish” <turbofish@swipnet.se> wrote in message
news:9r1ncp$pun$1@inn.qnx.com

I’ve just installed QNX a couple of minutes ago and, well, it doesn’t
work.

Problem One, The Mouse:
The cursors skips around the screen when I move the mouse, and sometimes
when I DONT move the mouse. It also sends false mouseclick data, resulting
in diffrent windows popping up here and there.
I think its related to the CPU load, since its more prone to “skipping
around the screen”
when I open a program, or generally do something else besides just moving
the cursor.
This was amusing for 30 seconds, but now I’m planning the death of my
mouse.

Problem Two, The Graphic Device:
I have a Matrox Millenium (4 or 8 MB RAM), and QNX finds it, and asks me
to set the videomode. (It also finds VGA and VESA). Problem is that when I
select any driver
except VGA (640x480 4-bit color) QNX restarts the driver and crashes
horribly, making loud
beeping-noises at regular intervals. Doesn’t matter which combination of
depth, resolution or refreshrate
I use, it still crashes.

Suggestions?

Thomas “Turbofish” Hellstrom
turbofish@swipnet.se

Turbofish <turbofish@swipnet.se> wrote:

I’ve just installed QNX a couple of minutes ago and, well, it doesn’t work.

Problem One, The Mouse:
The cursors skips around the screen when I move the mouse, and sometimes
when I DONT move the mouse. It also sends false mouseclick data, resulting
in diffrent windows popping up here and there.
I think its related to the CPU load, since its more prone to “skipping
around the screen”
when I open a program, or generally do something else besides just moving
the cursor.
This was amusing for 30 seconds, but now I’m planning the death of my mouse.

Try using the devi-hirun from http://developers.qnx.com or installing patch A.


Problem Two, The Graphic Device:
I have a Matrox Millenium (4 or 8 MB RAM), and QNX finds it, and asks me
to set the videomode. (It also finds VGA and VESA). Problem is that when I
select any driver
except VGA (640x480 4-bit color) QNX restarts the driver and crashes
horribly, making loud
beeping-noises at regular intervals. Doesn’t matter which combination of
depth, resolution or refreshrate
I use, it still crashes.

Can you run the grafxscript found at www.geocities.com/erickmuis/files/hardware_scripts/nto
and send us the generated tar file.

Regards,

Joe

Hi,

Hardware Support Account <hw@qnx.com> wrote in article <9r1rhc$o6a$1@nntp.qnx.com>…

Turbofish <> turbofish@swipnet.se> > wrote:
I’ve just installed QNX a couple of minutes ago and, well, it doesn’t work.

Problem One, The Mouse:
The cursors skips around the screen when I move the mouse, and sometimes
when I DONT move the mouse. It also sends false mouseclick data, resulting
in diffrent windows popping up here and there.
I think its related to the CPU load, since its more prone to “skipping
around the screen”
when I open a program, or generally do something else besides just moving
the cursor.
This was amusing for 30 seconds, but now I’m planning the death of my mouse.

Try using the devi-hirun from > http://developers.qnx.com > or installing patch A.

I’m afraid it is useless, I’ve the same problem with p166mmx. Try to renice devi-hirun:

pidin |grep devi-hirun

(to get PID of devi-hirun)

renice -6 -p



Best regards,
Eduard.

Fixed. Thank you.
Do I have renice every time I reboot?
Make a script and place it some initrc file?

Thomas “Turbofish” Hellstrom
turbofish@swipnet.se

I’m afraid it is useless, I’ve the same problem with p166mmx. Try to
renice devi-hirun:

pidin |grep devi-hirun

(to get PID of devi-hirun)

renice -6 -p <PID of devi-hirun



Best regards,
Eduard.

Turbofish <turbofish@swipnet.se> wrote in article <9r3drh$14i$1@inn.qnx.com>…

Fixed. Thank you.
Do I have renice every time I reboot?
Make a script and place it some initrc file?

I write it directly in ph script. But renice fails for non-root if Photon is launched by phlogin. I

use nophoton file and launch Photon manually from shell (type ph after login :wink:). Read “slay -P 16
devi-hirun” and “Photon session tuning” threads at qdn.public.qnxrtp.os

Best regards,
Eduard.

göb, göb alla slan!

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:50:42 +0200, “A” <a@a.a> wrote:

göb, göb alla slan!


“A” has it right. When confronted with a difficult computer problem

I usually chant “gob, gob alla slan!” But if that doesn’t work, I try
it backwards: “slan alla gob, gob!” This usual exorcises the demon
that is causing trouble.
(pardon that I have no oh-umlaut on my keyboard).
Bob Bottemiller
Stein.DSI/Redmond, WA USA

Bob Bottemiller <bob.bottemiller@deletefmcti.com> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:50:42 +0200, “A” <> a@a.a> > wrote:

gb, gb alla slan!


“A” has it right. When confronted with a difficult computer problem
I usually chant “gob, gob alla slan!” But if that doesn’t work, I try
it backwards: “slan alla gob, gob!” This usual exorcises the demon
that is causing trouble.
(pardon that I have no oh-umlaut on my keyboard).
Bob Bottemiller
Stein.DSI/Redmond, WA USA

Commonly I worship the god known as ‘bat’ hailed from the land of ‘baseball’.
We have worked together for a long time and have a great understanding with
each other.

“ohhh so your not gonna work eh?”

E.

Hi,

We checked the information, and everything looks ok. We also tried
the same chipset here without any problems. It looks like it may be
the way your system is configured or an actual problem with the card.
A few things:

  • if possible, try the graphics card in another system, or try a
    different graphics card in your machine
  • try temporarily removing the network card from your system to see
    if it is causing a conflict.
  • try upgrading the video BIOS on your graphics card (BIOS upgrades
    are available for Matrox cards from the Matrox website)
  • check your CMOS settings to ensure nothing is using memory area
    C0000, as it is used by the video BIOS

Regards,

Joe

Turbofish <turbofish@swipnet.se> wrote:

I’ve just installed QNX a couple of minutes ago and, well, it doesn’t work.

Problem One, The Mouse:
The cursors skips around the screen when I move the mouse, and sometimes
when I DONT move the mouse. It also sends false mouseclick data, resulting
in diffrent windows popping up here and there.
I think its related to the CPU load, since its more prone to “skipping
around the screen”
when I open a program, or generally do something else besides just moving
the cursor.
This was amusing for 30 seconds, but now I’m planning the death of my mouse.

Problem Two, The Graphic Device:
I have a Matrox Millenium (4 or 8 MB RAM), and QNX finds it, and asks me
to set the videomode. (It also finds VGA and VESA). Problem is that when I
select any driver
except VGA (640x480 4-bit color) QNX restarts the driver and crashes
horribly, making loud
beeping-noises at regular intervals. Doesn’t matter which combination of
depth, resolution or refreshrate
I use, it still crashes.

Suggestions?

Thomas “Turbofish” Hellstrom
turbofish@swipnet.se