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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: slow print problem Date: 26 Jun 1996 11:12:37 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4qrnhl$bc@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <31C98DE4.41C67EA6@rockwell.cz> <31C9C2C3.675102B3@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : Your printer port is on IRQ 7, which is the "garbage" interrupt : for all unrecognized interrupts, and you have some other device : that is generating unexpected interrupts that are going to IRQ 7 : and flaking out the printer driver; probably a sound card with : an open collector microphone connection, or a video card that's : spitting vertical retrace interrupts onto IRQ 2. What's a "garbage" interrupt ? Do you mean "you may have a conflicting interrupt" ? Can you elaborate ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....