Nowadays you can DMA to your parallel port, so that it doesn't touch the CPU at all. It depends what protocol the device uses though -- you can't DMA things other than ECP and normal 'compatibility mode', in general.
The reason that the Zip driver is slow is that the Zip drive doesn't use interrupts. There isn't really a lot of getting around that.
Anyone have any luck with running it on NT 4? I get a window frame and that's all. No title in the title bar and no refreshing content (the window contains a snapshot of what was there before).
It's not like saying that at all. I have X installed but, not being an X developer, I don't have its source code lying around on my hard disk, nor do I feel compelled to download the source every time there is a new release.
You don't have to download the entire Linux kernel source to run Linux.
If you are a kernel developer, you only need to download it once, and keep in step with patches.
If you are not a kernel developer, but want to compile the latest kernel in limited space, you can get rid of the code you aren't going to compile.
And I don't see why you bring up the speed of X at all. I was talking about the source code size, not the compiled size.
2.1 kernels have a 'PnP IP' option (or something). Turn that on. It will use rarp, which I expect is what you mean. Have rarpd running on another machine and use rarp to set the IP address.
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Well, can you get it to happen again? If you just run back to 2.2.6, how is the problem going to get fixed?
You can DMA to modern parallel ports.
Nowadays you can DMA to your parallel port, so that it doesn't touch the CPU at all. It depends what protocol the device uses though -- you can't DMA things other than ECP and normal 'compatibility mode', in general.
The reason that the Zip driver is slow is that the Zip drive doesn't use interrupts. There isn't really a lot of getting around that.
It's the other way around actually. If 2.0.x had lp1 as the only parallel port, it'll be lp0 in 2.2.x.
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Anyone have any luck with running it on NT 4? I get a window frame and that's all. No title in the title bar and no refreshing content (the window contains a snapshot of what was there before).
It's not like saying that at all. I have X installed but, not being an X developer, I don't have its source code lying around on my hard disk, nor do I feel compelled to download the source every time there is a new release.
You don't have to download the entire Linux kernel source to run Linux.
If you are a kernel developer, you only need to download it once, and keep in step with patches.
If you are not a kernel developer, but want to compile the latest kernel in limited space, you can get rid of the code you aren't going to compile.
And I don't see why you bring up the speed of X at all. I was talking about the source code size, not the compiled size.
When last I looked, X was in the region of 30Mb. Why aren't you complaining that the X source should be split into hardware-specific bits?
Stampede Linux has a 2.2 distribution.
Right, and what happens when you say:
dmesg | tail
? It should give you some sort of reason.
2.1 kernels have a 'PnP IP' option (or something). Turn that on. It will use rarp, which I expect is what you mean. Have rarpd running on another machine and use rarp to set the IP address.