Problems with lp
Jeff_A_Anderson at cup.portal.com
Jeff_A_Anderson at cup.portal.com
Thu Jun 28 10:55:30 AEST 1990
I have recently installed SCO Xenix 2.2.1 on a 286 box which has an
Everex I/O card (which used to be in a PC XT). I have tried several
times to activate the lp system and cannot get anything to print out
properly. The problem occurs as follos:
I set up all the required stuff, activate the scheduler and enable the
printer.
I submit a print request and the printer begins to print the banner page.
After about 10 lines the system says:
interrupt from unknown device vec=2
panic: unknown interrupt
** safe to power off ** (etc)
At first I thought this problem was related to the lp syste, but I also
get it when I "cat <file> > /dev/lp1".
There are no other parallel ports in the box. All the documentation
I find on interrupt vector 2 states that this is a general hardware fault.
The parallel port works fine under DOS
Any Ideas ? (email is fine)
thanks,
--- jeff
PS, I have installed this release of SCO Xenix on many 386 systems and had
no problems.
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