mouse weirdness - LinuxUAE

[amigau]

I too just installed Linux UAE on my Thinkpad (running RedHat 9, got the RPM off the link from RDrummond's website).  But after installing it I'm having VERY weird problems with the mouse support - for example, once the emulation starts the mouse 'tries' to follow the linux mouse but often doesn't go all the way to all sides of the UAE window, seems to hit invisible barriers.  It also doesnt' seem to support double-clicking icons to open them (you can still highlight and then right click to get them to 'Open' from the drop down menu, but...)

any thoughts?  Maybe I have an emulation setting set to high or too fast?

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[Coder]

Hi,

I remember something that you have to run a program called mousehack?
Put it in the startup-sequence. I could be wrong since I don't use UAE
for Linux. Maybe some experts can confirm this?

Coder

[evilrich]

You can run mousehack to overcome this problem.

You can also grab the mouse pointer with F12 + g.  (Press that combination again to release the mouse pointer)

Cheers,
Rich

[amigau]

OK, that fixed the mouse problem (thanks!) as far as 'invisible barriers', but what about double-clicking icons?  is there something else I turned on/off by mistake?

I seem to remember a sporadic issue with this in WinUAE in the past, too, when using AF on my work Win2K laptop...

kevin

[evilrich]

Hi Kevin

but what about double-clicking icons?

What CPU emulation settings are you using? This sort of thing usually happens if you have a JIT-enabled version of UAE and have the CPU speed set to adjustable. It screws the synchronization between the custom-chip emulation and the CPU emulation and the timers run amok. Hence,  your double-click is now much too slow (relatively to UAE time) to be recognized as a double-click - if you see what I mean.

If you're running a desktop, then you'll want CPU speed set to maximum (used to be called 'Optimize for host speed' or something similar in the GTK+ GUI).

Cheers,
Rich

[amigau]

I have it set for a 68040 and 'maximum'.  the chipset despite checking and saving 'full ecs' keeps reverting back to 'ecs + agnus' - your change makes it work a bit better but not consistently and certainly not in 2 clicks - usually more like 4-5...

kevin

[evilrich]

Hi Kevin

Perhaps you can mail me about this? I need more information about your set-up. What processor, what version of Linux, and throw in a copy of your config file . . .

uae@rcdrummond.net

Cheers,
Rich