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From: peter@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Peter deFriesse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine...
Date: 2 Mar 1994 14:18:32 -0500
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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In article <CM0v1x.A9K@unccsun.uncc.edu>,
James Lee Robinson <jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu> wrote:

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>
>                             However, my mouse is rather sluggish because of
>this. Anyone know a fix?
>
  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.

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