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I am building an GUI for my os,
but for so far i can't use a mouse.  :(

I heared that te mouse transmits at 1200 baud two bytes with all the data.
So have tried to scan my serial port for any mouse activity,
but no succes
my program language = assembler     (nasm)

Has anyone an idea of how to use a serial mouse?

u can mail me at [email protected]

Once again, the OSRC comes to the rescue.

http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles ... onDevices/ - articles on controlling the serial, parallel and USB ports

http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles ... ceDevices/ - mouse and keyboard driver info

You may also want to refer to:

Cute Mouse (open source DOS mouse driver) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cutemouse/

Alan Cox's Linux mouse driver tutorial - http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/kdoc ... guide.html
(specific to Linux, but potentially useful)

The Mouse Alternative Project (discusses alternative pointing devices that are software-compatible with mice; covers asynchronous mouse programming for comparison)- http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ih/teaching/al ... oject.html

Beyond Logic - http://www.beyondlogic.org/

Programmer's Heaven - http://www.programmersheaven.com/ (I didn't find much there, though)

http://www.hut.fi/~then/mytexts/mouse.html

http://panda.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~achapwe ... mouse.html

Unfortunately, I cannot help more myself, as my own work has not yet progressed to that point. HTH, despite this.