Re: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

[Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Vincent Manuel Barrilliot wrote:

> > Is there a mouse driver in XBIOS? I cannot recall anything like that.
> 
> At least, there's Initmouse() (that's XBIOS, right? ), it must be for something :)

no, it's not. It used to be used in TOS loaded from floppy in 1985, AFAIK.

> Also, I think I remember that in the _KBDVECS table there's entries for
routines that are
> called on mouse/keyboard events. NVDI hooks them so I guess they point to the VDI.

that's right. But that's not XBIOS :-)

> Which means the (N)VDI's mouse/keyboard management routines are called from within the
> interrupt handler, instead of following a Fselect on a FreeMiNT device.

that's clear. Question was if it was possible to force VDI to use Fselect.
Does VDI itself use the mouse for anything or does it just pass to AES
with vq_mouse() (or what's the call - I am guessing here at office without
Atari docs). If it's just passed perhaps it would be possible to write a
vq_mouse() replacement that would be /dev/mouse compatible.

Petr
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