make sure that /var/spool/lpd/ is writable

this sounds like the old interrupt problem that would hang my i386
on attempting to print.  I can't find the patches that I used back then
(pre 1.1?) but it involved some more delay.  I'm sure they are in the
email archive somewhere.  I haven't had any printing issues 1.2+

you could recompile to use the lpa device, but its slower than the
interrupting one.

-j