Re: [hpoj-devel] Re: [hpoj-announce] hpoj-0.7 is available

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Joe Piolunek wrote:
> I got the official 0.7 release from sourceforge today and installed
> it. There  weren't any problems during the build or installation.
> Printing using  ptal-printd works well. It's certainly a lot easier to
> set up.  Congratulations. 

Hi, Joe.  Thanks for the installation report; I'm glad you like it.  Also
thank you for your contributions to 0.7 as well as your constant willingness
to try out bleeding-edge code and give valuable feedback.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to fix the "xojpanel no-start" problem for you in this
release.  I worked on it some last night before starting the release process
and found that the failure code path starts at line 1501 in link_receive()
in ieee12844.c.  It seems to think that the peripheral is sending a command
packet with an unknown socket ID pair as part of the command, but I don't yet
know at what point during the negotiation sequence it happens.  It's obviously
a race condition, because I discovered that it doesn't fail if I'm sitting
at the computer waiting for it to happen, but as soon as I walk away and
let the screensaver (kforest) kick in, it fails left and right, which would
explain the high failure rate I previously reported.

David