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From: andreas@sunny.wup.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing on a HP Deskjet
Date: 18 Jan 1996 16:59:52 GMT
Organization: Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH, D-40789 Monheim
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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)

In article <4d6oa7$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
	j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>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).

I had trouble running my DeskJet500 when I enabled the kernel
option that preserves some nop's .... NONOP or how was it called
(sorry I'm not near a FreeBSD system here).

After removing it everything went fine.
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