Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Printing with .98? | Date | Tue, 07 May 1996 09:22:22 -0400 | From | "Michael K. Johnson" <> |
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Heffe writes: >After installing 1.3.98, I noticed that I was getting MANY printer >offline messages, and it was taking several minutes to output a few >lines of print. Went back to .97 and everything works fine. Anyone >else experienced this problem?
Way back when I re-wrote the parallel port driver, I got lots of beta-testers with different kinds of printers and made *sure* that my code ran well with all of them before I submitted my changes to Linus. Apparantly that mode of operation is considered passe these days, even during code freezes. Blech.
I encountered the same problem with 1.3.98. Watching the busy light on my printer, it stayed on steadily instead of blinking normally. There's clearly been a screwup somewhere. I haven't tried .97 on this machine; I used to run developmental kernels on a different machine which I no longer have available, and it wasn't connected to the printer.
michaelkjohnson
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