Description of problem: I recently changed to Mageia 2 on one of my machines (using the 3.4.34-desktop586 kernel). Attached to that machine's parallel port (/dev/lp0) is a Dot Matrix Printer (a Star LC24-200colour) that used to print at rapid speed (when sent plain ASCII [raw] data) - the bottleneck in printing was the speed of the print head: the printer's internal buffer would fill up and the computer would be waiting for the printer to empty some of its buffer. After installing Mageia 2, the printer now prints a line, seems to sleep, prints another line, seems to sleep, prints another line and so on. The printer itself only prints a line once it has received the end-of-line character, so the delay now appears to be in the sending of character to the printer. Solution: Talking with friends, they pointed me to the experimental FIFO usage of parport being the culprit (see URL) - it appears to be a well known feature. I have thus recompiled parport without FIFO support (somewhere I read there /ought/ to be a "nofifo" module option, but it does not exist), and the printer now responds as before with the printer printing as fast as it can with the computer now being the one waiting. Is it possible to get the module on distributed [compiled] kernels compiled with the FIFO option on parport *unset* to avoid this problem with the parallel port? Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
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Keywords: (none) => PATCH, TriagedCC: (none) => stormiAssignee: bugsquad => tmbSource RPM: kernel source => kernel
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD