Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:31:49 +0100 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer fiascos. Message-ID: <20000130163149.27244@coreff.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <14483.46867.83713.676590@trooper.velocet.net>; from David Gilbert on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:59:15PM -0500 References: <14483.45082.151986.340011@trooper.velocet.net> <20000129214940.J10669@holly.calldei.com> <14483.46867.83713.676590@trooper.velocet.net>
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:59:15PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> writes: > >Chris> On Saturday, January 29, 2000, David Gilbert wrote: >>> When this happens, the entire machine freezes until someone feeds >>> the printer --- the momment it starts printing again, the computer >>> unfreezes. > >Chris> Could it be a printer-specific (or printer-compatibility) >Chris> problem? My HP DeskJet 880C does not have that problem at all: > >To my mind, the printer shouldn't be able to hang the comptuer ... no >matter what it does. My biggest problem is that it hangs the system. Even if rapid interrupts are sent to the computer? A priority issue among various interrupt sources maybe. -- nsouch@free.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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