Re: parport driver broken in 2.1.127-pre7?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Nov 1998 10:45:31 GMT

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By author: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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>
> I just upgraded from 2.1.125 to 2.1.127-pre7, and it appears the
> parport driver has suffered massive brain damage. When I run it in my
> usual mode (irq=7 dma=3), it now corrupts the data sent to the
> printer. When run in irq/dma-less mode, it works, but *extremely*
> slowly (a small fraction of a page per minute at 600 dpi raster.)
>
> Just wanted to make people aware of this.
>

Note: I probably should add that this is an SMP kernel on an dual i686
system.

-hpa

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