Re: prinitng in 2.4.0 and one quick question (was Re: 2.4.0-test8 timing problems?)

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:03:33PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >  this time modprobe/depmod doesn;t complain but printouts (small ps file) are
> > screwed. 
> 
> Hmm, now I can only try to add some prints and see if I find something
> suspicious.
> Does it work in 2.2?

Yes. But there was a time when 2.2 printing showed exactly the same behaviour.
I cannot tell what fixed it there.

In my case (I have a PS printer): Printing PS does not work, it goes "ignore
data" after a while and prints nothing.  Iswitched to LaserJet II mode to see
what arrived at the printer, that looked OK to me. But it was 10 pages of
PS prologue, and I did not read it thoroughly.

Anyway, I inserted iobarriers aroung any access on ciab and even a delay loop
in the write function. With the iobarriers it seemed to get further until 
ignoring data, the delay loop did not help at all.

I tried all this back in 2.1 when printing did not work, with exactly the same
results then. But 2.1 was fixed sometime. I do not remember whom when and how.
I suspect the problem is the same as it was in 2.1 (2.2?)
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