[arachne] Re: Attempting to scroll right results in crashing my computer

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Hi Samuel,

I have two laptops: Compaq with a track bal and Toshiba with a little
green pylon between the keys that has to serve for a mouse.
They can both be used in Arachne and are installed like PS/2 mouse.

If a real PS/2 mouse is connected that will be used.

Regards, Bastiaan




On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:20:22 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:03:45 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:

>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>> Hi Sam,

>> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:11:54 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

>>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>>> Hello Folks:

>>> The consternation stated in the subject header of this message afflicted
>>> me twice consecutively when I tried to read the news story at this
>>> offending URL:

>>> "http://shenandoah.com/frame/?headlineID=12254";

>>> The above named webpage seeems to load fine.  Whenever I attempted to scroll
>>> right my computer crashed.  I got a black screen and a flashing cursor.
>>> The three finger salute wouldn't get me out of it.  I had to turn off the
>>> power switch and do a cold re-boot.

>> I had no problem with this URL, except that the advertising placed
>> itself over the text of the article. Scroll is OK, with the mouse and
>> keyboard.

>>> I am running the current Arachne GPL version, 190j1.  I have never before
>>> suffered a problem like this with any version of Arachne.

>> I am running arachne 1.90JG, with 64 MB RAM, 800x600, 256 colours,
>> with 5000 pixels virtual screen, on an AMD K6, 600 MHz. MS-DOS 6.20.

>> Regards,
>>    Ron

> Thanks for the reply, Ron, and thanks for undertaking the daring adventure
> for me to try out a web page that crashes my computer.

> I am happy to hear that you had no major problems with that web page.

> Perhaps the reason why you did not encounter problems with it is that
> you are running Arachne in real mode, and not in a DOS box under Windows.

> With my Dell laptop, with which I am running Arachne nowadays, I have to run
> her in a DOS box under Windows if I want to use a mouse with Arachne

> My laptop doesn't have a real mouse.  It just has a touch-sensitive pad and
> some buttons as integral components mounted in front of the keyboard and
> intended to replace the functions of a real mouse.  Those components become
> active only under Windows.  I have tried to make them work by installing
> the cute mouse driver while in real DOS mode.  The cute mouse driver will
> not activate those components. Does anyone here know of a DOS-based driver
> that will activate those components?

> My laptop has a PS/2 port where I can plug in an external mouse, but I have
> not yet tried out using my laptop with a real mouse.  I will conduct that
> experiment soon.  If I can get my laptop computer to recognize a real mouse
> when in real mode, then I will try out the problem web page again while
> running Arachne in real mode.  Also I will report my results to the list.

> Sam Heywood

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