Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 05:22:22 -0500 (EST) From: Hugh Strong <hstrong@eng2.uconn.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: hstrong <hstrong@eng2.uconn.edu>, James Vaughton <vaughton@tower-unix.city-poly.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Slooww Printer Port Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9503290523.A15093-0100000@orange> In-Reply-To: <14602.9503290936@unixa.unixa.clp.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, James Vaughton wrote: > > Boy I know that feeling... Right I posted a similar whinge a while back and > thanks to the many replies I recieved I sorted it out. It seems that it is > caused by sharing IRQ's. The simple solution is to use lptcontrol (or some > similar command) to set the printer device to being a polled one... eg. > > lptcontrol -p /dev/lpt0 > > stick it in your rc.local and you should be sorted... The original answer to > Hope this helps, > James V. > vaughton@unixa.lgu.ac.uk Problem solved. This really should be in a FAQ somewhere. How 'bout it, guys? -- Hugh Strong hstrong@eng2.uconn.edu
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