Re: 2.0.36pre13 vs Epson 800 (lp driver)

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:26:52 +0100

>> Tested my Epson 800 printer on 2.0.36pre13:
>> Works fine on polling. On an interrupt, prints about 1/3
>> of a page and stops or becomes _very_ slow.
>
>Did interrupt mode ever work fine with that printer. I've never really
>touched the interrupt driven side of it at all

We spent a long time trying to fix this around 2.1.90 or so. I think the
conclusion was that the 2.0/early 2.1 code had always had problems with these
printers and it was just that nobody had noticed before.

It never seemed really worth backporting the fix because the default is to not
use interrupts in any case.

p.

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