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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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To: pw@lysator.liu.se (P{r Winzell)
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 11:15:13 -0500 (CDT)
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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
> 


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