tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:

> 
> since I updated to -current yesterday I get message like this from time
> to time:
> 
> Oct 24 10:32:04 lyssa /netbsd: com0: 0 silo overflows, 0 ibuf overflows, 3 uart failures
> 
> But there's only a 1200 baud Logitech mouse connected to "com0". And I doubt
> that the FIFO is suddenly broken.

This probably happens when you're starting or exiting X.  It has
nothing to do with the FIFO; the message is just noting that the
driver worked around a hardware bug that will cause some UARTs to lock
up.