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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!att-out!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!sgkruk From: sgkruk@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Serge G. Kruk) Subject: SystemV / PS2 mouse / Archive tape Message-ID: <CpCwn5.84z@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 01:11:29 GMT Lines: 23 Hello all, first congratulations to the whole FreeBSD core team : 1.1-GAMMA is a beauty. After some work and lots of help my home machine is now better than what I have at school. Thanks. Now for the questions. 1) I have a lot of SystemV code (about 15 years of work) that I am porting to my now favorite Unix. For the most part this is easy. Except for the Inter-process communications. I noticed that I could re-compile the kernel with SystemV shared memory, semaphores and message queues. But before I do this I would like to know if these features are relics of the past liable to dissapear anytime soon or if I can count on them forever ? (Or a resonable approximation thereof.) 2) My machine has a PS2 type mouse. I could not find the driver for this rodent in the source distribution (psm.c should be the name). Am I simply blind, or has the support for PS2 mouse failed to materialize ? 3) I can read and write on my _fairly old_ Archive tape (controller sc499) but it does not stream. I have tried to use the /dev/rWt0 instead of /dev/rwt0 as suggested somewhere but it still only limps along. Any hints ? (I can live with this, of course; the rest of FreeBSD more than make up for this slight inconvenience, but if it can be fixed...) Thanks.