Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:15:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
To: pw@lysator.liu.se (P{r Winzell)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: your mail
Message-ID: <9509081615.AA01033@olympus>
In-Reply-To: <199509080816.KAA07879@katinka.lysator.liu.se> from "P{r Winzell" at Sep 8, 95 10:16:31 am
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> > Hello, > > I wrote a previous letter but it was in the midst of installation > confusion and didn't really contain direct and identifiable questions. > I have now been running my system happily and with impressive stability > for quite a some time, though, and I hope somebody will be able to > briefly answer me these two questions: > > A) Using a serial mouse for X, the pointer jitters all over the place. > Is anybody likely to fix the serial driver? Friends tell me the FreeBSD > serial driver is known to be buggy, which seems to me to be quite big a > problem for an operating system? > > B) Is there any chance of seeing a combined keyboard/mouse "PS/2-mouse"- > capable anytime soon? Altneratively a hack to the driver that exists > so that it works? (Currently, the probe for the mouse locks up the > keyboard). > > C) I have a definite bug in the NFS filesystem and it seems to me it could > only be on my end of the link that the problem lies. It is most easily > identified by simply su:ing to root and doing a 'mv' of a file to a NFS- > mounted filesystem. A chown will then be attempted, and fail, and some > buffer fails to flush properly because the destination file will be > truncated to some even number (eg a 51134-size file will be 49152). > This is obviously a rather serious problem and is keeping me from using > NFS for anything other than read-only-mounting eg the src directory. > > I do not run YP/NIS. Is the file-system exported from the server granting you root access? Boyd > > > I have briefly looked at the source for the NFS filesystem as well as the > serial driver but OS programming is so completely out of my scope that I > wouldn't know where to begin to look. So I am reduced to asking if anybody > who does know what to do is likely to do it in the future... > > I want to thank everybody involved for their efforts, and say that I hope > to be of at least some marginal use to the project some day. > > > Sincerely, > Pär Winzell > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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