Re: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

[Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Henk Robbers wrote:

> > 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.
> >
> I dont think this is necessary.
> Let the VDI do its things untouched.
> My suspicion is that dev/mouse is never used by a AES at all, but only in
> a console to set a text cursor, and perhaps a very long time ago for the last time.

I think /dev/mouse is not used in any application. What console and what
text cursor do you mean?

> So nobody (but me :) ever had the change to see that there is a little bug
> in it.

Is it a real bug or just a problem of VDI being locked out?

Petr
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