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AMOUSE.SYS

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Product Support
OS/2 1.3
OS/2 2.0
OS/2 2.1
OS/2 2.11 SMP
OS/2 Warp 3 S
OS/2 Warp Connect S
OS/2 Warp 4 S
OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business S

Mouse Driver for Wheel Mice. like e.g. the:

  • Logitech Pilot Mouse+
  • Logitech Mouse Man+
  • Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse
  • Microsoft Intellimouse
  • IBM Scrollpoint Mouse
  • Typhoon 40159
  • Trust 250S

Syntax

DEVICE=?:\OS2\BOOT\AMOUSE.SYS

Parameters

/V
Display informational messages during boot.
/RELAXED
Enables relaxed sync detection.
/QSIZE=n
Specifies the queue size for certain types of mice.
/TYPE=s
/STYPE=s
/SERIAL=s
COMn or NONE
/LINEAR=n
n=1..9
/FORCEON
Force reporting of a PDI mouse even if none is found.
/NOVMAPI
Disables the VM API (VMWare and VBOX). This disables the VM mouse integration.
/USBONLY
Disables initialization of all mouse types except for USB mice.

Additional debugging options:

/BP
Execute a int 3 breakpoint immediately upon parsing this switch.

/DBG:n

/WRAP
Causes the debug buffer to wrap. The default is nowrap.

/COM:<port>

Causes debug messages to be output to the specified serial port.
1=0x3f8, 2=0x2f8, 0xnnnn specifies the COM port base address.

/BAUD:<baud>

Sets the serial Port to the specified speed. Only valid if /COM is specified first.

Remarks

NOTE
With AMouse installed XFree86 refuses to work.

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