Maybe my parallel port has some kind of bug in it. Disabling the DMA and IRQ
for it has definitely helped.
Russell
Torbjvrn Gard wrote:
> After upgrading to 2.0.35 (and 2.0.36 pre-patch 6) the parallell
> port is
> very slow. Ghostscript (Alladin) spent about 10 minutes cpu time
> for 200k
> to a Epson Stylus 800 printer. The problem is not with gs though.
> lpd showed
> the same symtom with a preformatted file.
>
> I have not tried pre-patch 7.
>
> After changing back to 2.0.34 it worked again.
>
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> cpu family : 5
> model : 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock
> vendor_id : CyrixInstead
> stepping : 1 rev 6
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu
> bogomips : 119.60
>
> I have no experience in kernel development - I just think it
> would be bad if a fix for this would not make into the final
> 2.0.36 release.
>
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