Ventura Publisher 1.1 Freezes Serial Mouse

Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
Article ID: Q33493

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows operating system versions 2.x, 3.0, 3.0a

SUMMARY

Ventura Publisher version 1.1 uses the GEM operating system as its own windowing environment. This operating system takes over port usage in some cases. This problem has also been reported with Ventura Publisher version 2.0.

MORE INFORMATION

When using a Microsoft Mouse with a serial interface, if you follow the steps below, your mouse pointer becomes frozen on the screen because Windows has no way of reinitializing the port:

Execute Ventura from Windows.
Exit Ventura to the MS-DOS Executive.

At the beginning of the Ventura documentation is the note recommending that if you use Ventura version 1.1 with Windows, you should use a mouse with a bus interface.

This information applies to Microsoft Windows 2.03, 2.1, 2.11, 3.0, and 3.0a. This does not apply to later versions of Windows.

KBCategory: kb3rdparty hbhw
KBSubcategory: win30
Additional reference words: 2.03 2.10 3.00 3.00a

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Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
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