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SubjectRe: 2.1.95[4] more on parport
Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Garst R. Reese wrote:
>
> > I have now tried .95 with lp and parport as modules and compiled in
> > using parport=0x378,7 on the boot line. I went to dosemu and ran the HP
> > Deskjet 680 setup box. It said the printer was not responding. I
> > rebooted to DOS and ran it. Same response. I powered down and rebooted
> > to DOS. It worked. Rebooted to .94, printer not responding. On .93 I
> > could run the HP setup from dosemu.
> > This is a 486DX2/66 [SPP,PS2] parport, no PCI, no VESA bus. procinfo.13
> > shows parport0 in IRQ 7 with 0 interrupts. I also have scsi, unix, and
> > serial_cs as modules, and they all work under kmod-v5.
>
> Garst, I'm not sure I follow this. It works in 2.1.93 but not 2.1.94?
>
> If that's right, try using the lp.c from 2.1.93. In 2.1.94, most of the
> verify_area calls were abolished in favour of check the return value of
> things like put_user. The only other parport-related change was to /proc
> handling, which surely shouldn't make any difference here.
>
> Tim.
> */
OK, I reversed the lp.c patch in 2.1.94. No change :(
I can boot to DOS and the printer works. 2.1.93 was weird in that if I
tried to print from dosemu, it would wait until I did exitemu, then
print the spooled files.
The stuff in /proc/parport/0 all looks normal.
--
Garst

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