Help needed with printer under ix/386

[Joseph Sarkes]

In article <1696 at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>, fritzz at lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
> another questions from me. I have a HP LaserJet series II
> connected to the parallel port of my 386 running ix/386.

> If I send a file to lp containing about 40 kBytes of processed
> TeX code it lasts about half an hour or longer until the 4 pages
> are out of the printer. If I do the same under MS-DOS it's
> about 55 seconds.


Check to see if the parallel port interrupt is shared /properly
specified so that unix can use it.(DON'T share it with another 
device!) I have seen here on the net a discussion about shared
interrupts giving rise to operation in a timeout mode vice interrupt.