Re: Printing

[Glenn H. <gh...@c2...>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Glenn Hisdal wrote:
> > Frank Rudolf Georg Petzold wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:41:20AM +0100, Ren? Thol wrote:
> > > > And how do I compile a 2.4 kernel that can use my printer on the
> > > > parallel port?
> > >
> > > There is no way. Parallel port support is broken in 2.4. Use 2.2 instead.
> >
> > I did some tests with printing yesterday.
> > If I enable DEBUG in drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c,
> > printing works.

> > Without DEBUG disabled it only prints garbage (when printing postscript
> > files).
[..]

> > So, I turned off DEBUG and added a for-loop inside
> > amiga_write_control(..)
> > to add a small delay, and printing still worked...
> >
> > Timing problem ?
> 
> What happens if you replace the DPRINTK(...) by mb()?
>
I'll try that tonight, and see what happens...
 
> The fact that it works for some people could be attributed to the CPU (603e vs.
> 604e).

ok. I have a 604e btw.

- glenn