1. The chapter "LED" in the manual can give a hint
2. Power up QIMSI Gold without SD Card. The screen will give some information.
Stephan
Yes, my mouse is apparently detected (I read the LED section and the desktop starts) but does nothing happens mouse pointer wise. Is there another app on the WIN drives that would show mouse cursor movement?
Well, guess all experimentation has now ended as the very tenuously attached USB socket for the mouse has just snapped off my board. I'm not happy, and neither is the board.
Very sorry to see that. The downside of modern SMD technology... Stephan and me discussed replacing this connector by a throughhole type. But only few of such accidents happened, and it did not seem to justify the addidtional tooling and prototyping costs.
Do you need the PS/2 keyboard port? If not, we can help by a special FPGA logic which places mouse there.
Thanks Peter, and no I don’t need the keyboard option. However, I have fixed the connector by very carefully soldering on two very small data wires (the ones that had ripped off from the board) and routing them to pads on the back of the board. I then connected the two power pins and soldered and epoxied the connector back into place. Hopefully this will be more secure now.
It seems to work, in that I get a green flash indicating that a mouse has been detected. What I could do with is knowing how to test the mouse in use, with say a mouse cursor. I am reading through the manual but haven’t found anything that will help with this. Do I have to instigate the pointer environment some how then load a driver in some way. I do seem to remember seeing a QL pointer environment web page that I read some time ago.
Sorry for my ignorance here but I am coming back to the QL after having one in the 80s. I never had a mouse then but did have the ICE ROM cart, which I obviously can’t use with the QIMSI GOLD, or I don’t know how to. Since the 80s the QL world does seem to have moved on quit a bit, hence me needing quite a bit of catch up.
Pepperm wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:20 pm
It seems to work, in that I get a green flash indicating that a mouse has been detected.
What does the loader screen tell with the microSD card pulled out?
Any chance that I could get hold of the firmware with the USB ports swapped over please, so that I can try the mice that I have with the other port pleas?
Pepperm wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 1:58 pm
Any chance that I could get hold of the firmware with the USB ports swapped over please, so that I can try the mice that I have with the other port pleas?
Mark
Sent to you by Email. Please read the chapter in the manual carefully. Also the section:
"Important: Unsuccessful logic update can result in a non-working QIMSI Gold device!"
and
"Please note that this feature is still under development, and there is no 100% safety of the hardware and
software involved. Every logic update is completely at your own risk! In case of failure, it would be required
to return the hardware to the manufacturer"
Thanks Stephan. I'll summon up the courage and give the update a go. I have continuity tested all of the connections and everything seems OK. Ill see what happens with the new code. Should all PS/2 mice work, I even have one with a ball in it!
Pepperm wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:56 pm
Should all PS/2 mice work, I even have one with a ball in it!
Not all PS/2 mice will work, for two reasons: Initialization comes very quickly after power-up, and there seems to be a related timing problem for some mice. Also, the PS/2 pullup resistors in the latest QIMSI Gold batch are relatively weak - this was a design compromise to allow USB update by software later on. Not all mice like that. You'll have to experiment a little with the PS/2 or combo mice you have, or buy the recommended mouse.
