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CandyMan

22.01.2023, 10:07
 

Mouse movement resets the system. (Miscellaneous)

I changed my mouse from PS/2 to USB. When building a program by VP (Virtual Pascal) in dos, using HX dos extender, I move the mouse, the computer resets. What could be causing this? Some bug in UEFI/BIOS or in HX. When I used a PS/2 mouse it didn't happen.

Japheth

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Germany (South),
22.01.2023, 12:51

@ CandyMan

Mouse movement resets the system.

> I changed my mouse from PS/2 to USB. When building a program by VP (Virtual
> Pascal) in dos, using HX dos extender, I move the mouse, the computer
> resets. What could be causing this? Some bug in UEFI/BIOS or in HX. When I
> used a PS/2 mouse it didn't happen.

Did you check that the mouse works ok for real-mode programs?

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CandyMan

22.01.2023, 13:08

@ Japheth

Mouse movement resets the system.

> Did you check that the mouse works ok for real-mode programs?

The mouse works (except the wheel). I found that the problem occurs only in the configuration with the UMBPCI driver.

Japheth

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Germany (South),
22.01.2023, 13:27

@ CandyMan

Mouse movement resets the system.

> > Did you check that the mouse works ok for real-mode programs?
>
> The mouse works (except the wheel). I found that the problem occurs only in
> the configuration with the UMBPCI driver.

Perhaps UMBPCI is a bit too "aggressive" and steals a range that's used by the BIOS's "USB legacy" code. UMBCHK might give further hints...

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rr

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Berlin, Germany,
22.01.2023, 22:23

@ CandyMan

Mouse movement resets the system.

> I changed my mouse from PS/2 to USB. When building a program by VP (Virtual
> Pascal) in dos, using HX dos extender, I move the mouse, the computer
> resets. What could be causing this? Some bug in UEFI/BIOS or in HX. When I
> used a PS/2 mouse it didn't happen.

Apropos: Does anybody know, what happened to http://vpascal.ning.com/?

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rr

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Berlin, Germany,
23.01.2023, 08:54

@ rr

Mouse movement resets the system.

> Apropos: Does anybody know, what happened to
> http://vpascal.ning.com/?

Allan Mertner told me today:
Hi Robert,
I'm not sure anyone uses it any longer; there is a Facebook group that has almost no traffic, but that's about it. Ning decided they wanted too much money for it to be worth keeping it there.
Cheers, Allan


So, if anybody wants to setup a new community, please share a link.

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CandyMan

23.01.2023, 15:16

@ Japheth

Mouse movement resets the system.

> > > Did you check that the mouse works ok for real-mode programs?
> >
> > The mouse works (except the wheel). I found that the problem occurs only
> in
> > the configuration with the UMBPCI driver.
>
> Perhaps UMBPCI is a bit too "aggressive" and steals a range that's used by
> the BIOS's "USB legacy" code. UMBCHK might give further hints...

The problem also occurs when I do not load the UMBPCI driver. Stack overflow is likely occurring on mouse movement. Same with M$DOS and FreeDOS. FreeDOS sometimes displays a memory block violation or invalid instruction execution message.
When I load one of the drivers (JEMM, QEMM or EMM386) this does not happen. In CONFIG.SYS I have set STACKS=9,256

Japheth

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Germany (South),
23.01.2023, 17:28

@ CandyMan

Mouse movement resets the system.

> When I load one of the drivers (JEMM, QEMM or EMM386) this does not happen.

That's a rather strong indication that it's NOT a real-mode stack overflow.

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marcov

23.01.2023, 21:29

@ rr

Mouse movement resets the system.

> So, if anybody wants to setup a new community, please share a link.

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org :-) :-)

Seriously, the Ning to facebook move was quite a while ago, but there hasn't been much content there.

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