From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] random moving of cursor arrow Message-ID: <20030725104302.O28024@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from sasa on Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:52:31AM +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:43:03 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 037bce2e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:52:31AM +0200, sasa wrote: > > > when i copy large amount of data from cd-rom to hard-disk (300 mb) > and try to move the cursor arrow, then the cursor is randomly > moving around the screen. The new serial port device driver seems a bit jangly (Dave, is this your doing?). > so, i'm not able to work with mouse while copying from cd to harddrive. > procesor is amd k6 300 mhz, graphic card is s3virge, 96 mb of ram. > echo i1 > /dev/eia0ctl usually solves that for me, but naturally it relies on the serial chip being advanced enough to include the FIFO buffer. I have wondered what it is that changed and make the serial driver less responsive, but I am not (yet) going to delve in there. ++L