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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine...
Date: 3 Mar 1994 18:48:35 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2l2oq8INNjk4@twain.ucs.umass.edu>,
Peter deFriesse <peter@twain.ucs.umass.edu> wrote:

[ Sluggish mouse ]

>Yes, but you probably aren't going to like it.  I was very disappointed
>with the performance of my mouse (jumpy, intermittent, etc.) compared to
>my `at work' system running a much older version of FreeBSD with 16550's
>also, and a similar (same brand) but newer mouse.
>
>  Change the drivers to the older com0/1 from the sio0/1.  I tried mix
>and match, but no-go.  Luckily, my 14.4 modem works fine (and faster than
>DOS) with com vs. sio, and the improvement in mouse performance is
>astounding.

The man page for sio explains the flags you can use to disable the buffer
on the 16550.  Since the com driver is now deprecated I would suggest using
the sio driver for future compatability.


Nate


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