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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Epson LQ printer - Can it be done?
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 23:06:51 GMT
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Holger Veit (veit@mururoa.gmd.de) wrote:
> 1. My problem went away *entirely* with both interrupt- and interruptless
>    driver on my system, after I changed cables. This worked with pk-0.2,
>    and pk-0.2.3/4 didn't change a bit here.
>    There is no misdetection, no hanging and no crash, and this is with a
>    plain 20$ multi-I/O card.

To put my $0.02 :

I've a HP Deskjet 500 and I'm using the  interruptless lpa driver (I've had
problems a few month ago with the 0.2.4 lpt and gave up). My printer is not
detected at boot time unless turned on.

Strangely, I've been lent a HP Laserjet 4 for a few weeks  and it was reco-
gnized (the port in fact) all time...

I get very good printing  times for both text  and graphics on the Deskjet,
but a friend of mine with exactly the same setup must use the lpt driver if
he wants to get decent times for graphical output...

Maybe FreeBSD (soon on my computer :-)) will cure our [little] problems.
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Ollivier ROBERT                                    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
A 386BSD & PERL addict... PGP fingerprint: 0023C49D 2E70CE5A 26708662 B8E8D709