Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 10:16:31 +0200
From: P{r Winzell <pw@lysator.liu.se>
To: questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <199509080816.KAA07879@katinka.lysator.liu.se>
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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. 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
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