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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing on a HP Deskjet
Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:45:27 GMT
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Antonio Navarro Navarro <webmaster@bemarnet.es> writes:

> I have a lot of problems with my HP Deskjet 540 Printer under FreeBSD. I 
> need some info about printing on it.

Somebody told me that the Deskjet 540 experiences some problems with
interrupt handling when used under FreeBSD.  Try using the lpt driver
in polled mode (RTFM lptcontrol(8) for this).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)