>>I've been having trouble printing with my pentium onto a postscript
>>printer.  The printer will print a few pages and will then report a
>>postscript error.  This seems to indicate to me that the driver is
>>sending some bad data out the parallel port.  This will happen if am
>>using lpr or just cat'ing into the device.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>
>Are you using the interrupting parallel port driver?  (lpt0).  If so, then
>use the polled parallel port driver.  AFIAK, no i386-based Unix has a
>working interrupt-driven parallel port driver (I'm pretty sure the Linux
>and FreeBSD ones are all polled).  If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear about
>it!

   Our "lpt" driver can be configured either way - interrupt or polled.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project