[geeks] -fast option on Sun's compiler.

James Sharp geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Dec 13 22:50:36 CST 2001


> It's not your imagination; these id10ts have ported DOS code right on into
> Linux. lirc, for instance. You have to tell the Linux kernel not to attach
> to the serial hardware you want to use (i.e.: one of the serial ports).
> Why? Because it bit-bangs it directly. Can you say fsck UNIX?

The "SANE" scanner program is like that.  I thought i'd give it a go on my
U30 driving my Mustek parallel port scanner.  It built fine...no
problems...then panicked my system when it tried to open port 0x378.



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