From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 19 14:27:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08974 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (smtp@gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08951 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chriss@telecom.ksu.edu) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V1.3) id sma018680; Fri Jun 19 16:26:16 1998 X-Authentication-Warning: oto.telecom.ksu.edu: chriss owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:26:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Casey To: Dave Cole cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sio problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i had sio problems when runnin the xig accelerated x xerver like what you have said you are having. they blamed it on some pci buss falacy. who knows but i installed the patches and it went away. so there is something there that they fixed. but they wouldnt get specific. i didnt have the problem under xfree. Chris Casey System Admin Kansas State University Telecommunications 109 East Stadium Manhattan, Ks. 66506 tel: (785) 532 4505 fax: (785) 532-7114 On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Dave Cole wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Open Systems Networking wrote: > > -To get rid of the SIO overflow problems try lowering your port speed. > -I dont know what your trying to connect at, but say if your connecting at > -115,000 try 57,600, if your connecting with 57,600 try something lower. > -Keep going lower till those overflows dissapear. > > You've missed the point. The sio overflow problem isn't caused by > data coming in too fast. The sio buffer just isn't flushing, it > seems. I did try a slower speed initially but it doesn't matter what > speed it runs at; if the buffer isn't flushed, the next nugget of data > that comes in from the port overwrites what's sitting in the buffer > and thus the sio overflow. > > For reference, this serial port is connected to an ISDN TA and is > often doing a 2B (128k) connection to my ISP. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Dave Cole (DC1110) | dacole@netcom.ca > Systems Administrator |* dacole@rik.net * > | office/~dacole/ > Netcom Canada |* www.rik.net/~dacole/ * > 905 King Street West, Toronto, M6K 3G9 | phone - 416.341.5801 > Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Earth, Sol | fax - 416.341.5725 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message