At 10:27 am 9/15/99 +0100, Roger Brooks wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 Federico_Lupi@www.datasys.it wrote:
>
>>I use the same printer and had the same problem.  It turned out to be a
>>problem
>>with the interrupt driven device driver for the printer (or, maybe, with
>>the printer
>>firmware).  I solved it using the lpa0 (polled) device in /etc/printcap
>>instead of lpt0.
>>Now it works fine both for text mode and Ghostscript.
>
>It might be worth you checking for shared interrupts.  I had a similar
>problem, and found that Plug'n'Pray had set up a 509B ethernet card to
>share IRQ7 with lpt0.  I wasn't actually using the 509B (I'd bought it
>cheap at a fair and shoved it in the machine to test it).  When I removed
>it, the interrupt-driven printer device started working properly.

I already checked for irq 7 in the system logs, and it appears that the
parallel port is the only thing using it.  But I'll try disabling the irq
anyway as soon as I get the chance.  (The page is now up to 2+1/4 inches)

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