From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759943AbXEMWHE (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 18:07:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756521AbXEMWGz (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 18:06:55 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:53164 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755415AbXEMWGy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 18:06:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:12:01 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Markus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ko=DFmann?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: parallel port problems with 2.6.21_rc5 and 2.6.21_rc6_git3-20070410174235 Message-Id: <20070513151201.f2b38720.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <200705051658.22817.mkossmann_ml1@gmx.de> References: <200704112040.23505.mkossmann_ml1@gmx.de> <20070503132513.e3db44e9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <200705051658.22817.mkossmann_ml1@gmx.de> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:58:22 +0200 Markus Koßmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2007 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:40:23 +0200 Markus Koßmann wrote: > > > When using either the unpatched 2.6.21_rc5 or SUSEs patched > > > 2.6.21_rc6_git3-20070410174235 on a SUSE-10.2 x86_64 system the parallel > > > port doesn't work right. If I "cat some_asciifile >/dev/lp0" the output > > > on my Epson Stylus Color 880 is unreadable. "cat /dev/zero >/dev/lp0" > > > creates random characters on the paper. Printing using cups also doesn't > > > work any more. > > > Switching back to SUSEs 2.6.18.8-0.1 kernel fixes the problem. > > > Any Ideas, what might be broken here ? > > > > Nope, but I have the same problem. > > I'll dig into it some day, but it's not very high priority for me. > > > > I haven't tested it lately. Do you still see this problem? > > > Yes, it still exists with SUSEs 2.6.21-20070502152652 kernel. Didn't check > with vanilla 2.6.21 yet. Hi Markus, I just retested this on 2.6.21-git12 and didn't have a problem with printing. Can you test on 2.6.22-rc1? --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***