QIMSI

[Maskenlos]

Hi,

Done already by Jan B.

https://dilwyn.theqlforum.com/qimsi/index.html

See bottom of the Page.

Best regards,

Stephan

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi Stephan,

Thank you for the information, I have actual got the driver and source code, just did not read that it was for Minerva.

[stephen_usher]

Is there a method of testing the mouse interface on the QIMSI?

I had it working last December when I first got the card but recently it doesn't seem to be detecting the mouse at all. At one point the unit just hung if a USB mouse was plugged in but that's gone away now.

Note that I've never plugged in/unplugged a mouse whilst the machine's been powered.

[Maskenlos]

Hi,

did you test already all the basic things:

- are you sure it is the same mouse you are using?
- is the mouse working on an other PC?
- does the mouse LED / LD light up?
- did you check the adapters if used any? OTG adapter as well?
- did you use the correct mouse port? Not the K/B one?

On page number 5 in the manual, there is a small chapter "LED". You may read it, what is the LED flash doing?

Best regards,

Stephan

[stephen_usher]

The mouse and USB OTG cable are the same ones I used last December when it was working. I've tried other mice as well. They all work fine on other machines. The mouse LED lights on those mice which don't use infrared LEDs for navigation, and ball mice, of course. I'm using the right-hand port, as described in the documentation.

The LED flashes green red on start-up then goes off and green after a second or so.

[Peter]

Green color single LED flash during power-up signals detection of a Standard PS/2 mouse.
So if your mouse is one without scroll wheel, you should be okay hardware-wise.
Please cross-check without mouse. In that case the green LED shall not flash at early boot-time and only go green continuosly later.
There must be a visible difference.

Which OS and CPU are you using? Does the system boot up from SD card?
Did you remember to load the mouse driver after the Pointer Environment?

If you intend to use the QIMSI mouse driver, please make sure that other mouse interfaces are either detached or disabled in their respective driver software. For example, if you have QIMI installed, please configure (Super)GoldCard SMSQ/E to ignore QIMI.

[stephen_usher]

Green color single LED flash during power-up signals detection of a Standard PS/2 mouse.
So if your mouse is one without scroll wheel, you should be okay hardware-wise.
Please cross-check without mouse. In that case the green LED shall not flash at early boot-time and only go green continuosly later.
There must be a visible difference.

There is no initial flash without the mouse plugged in. The mouse does have a scroll wheel.

Which OS and CPU are you using? Does the system boot up from SD card?
Did you remember to load the mouse driver after the Pointer Environment?

The OS is QDOS JS and running a Tetroid SGC clone.

Oh, no, I installed the driver before, as per the documentation which says put it into your boot script.

If you intend to use the QIMSI mouse driver, please make sure that other mouse interfaces are either detached or disabled in their respective driver software. For example, if you have QIMI installed, please configure (Super)GoldCard SMSQ/E to ignore QIMI.

There are no other mouse interfaces.

[Peter]

Weird. The green LED flash definitely shows that the mouse has been successfully detected and initialized by the bootloader.
Does the PE pointer work with the cursor keys?
Is the mouse driver loaded after the PE?

[Tesla]

Hi everyone.
I have a Ql equipped with Tetroid multirom, Qimsi classic, SGC, Floppies, Kilgus Vga 2.0 e, vdrive and superhermes light.
At startup I can then choose between Minerva and JS rom. Starting with the latter, the boot program loads the IPCEXTIT file (Italian keyboard) and the sermouse drive. Everything works perfectly for several minutes until at a certain point the screen goes black and the QL seems to freeze. If I restart this time with Minerva or SMSQE, the QL starts normally but both Jan's keyboard drive and the SMSQE one (if I restart with this one) do not work correctly (keys like cursors, CTRL C, ESC seem inactive or print wrong characters). By completely disconnecting the power supply, after a time I cannot determine, and restarting with Minerva or SMSQE the keyboard works correctly again . It seems as if a capacitor needs to discharge in order for everything to work properly again .
Any ideas?
Thanks to everyone who can help me.
Greetings.
Marco

[Tesla]

Sorry, I forgot to say that when restarting with minerva or smsqe it is the Qimsi that connects keyboard and mouse.
Cheers
Marco