From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 05:52:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA22827 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:52:58 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA22819 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:52:56 -0700 Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA01188; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:45:16 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199508011245.IAA01188@hda.com> Subject: Re: slow parallel printing To: onewnan@denitqm.ecte.uswc.uswest.com (Owen Newnan) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:45:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Owen Newnan" at Jul 31, 95 04:41:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 669 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Owen Newnan writes: > I configured my printers using termcap pointing to /dev/lpt0 (parallel > interface). The Epson Stylus Color works, but two orders of magnitude > slower than under DOS. The HP LaserJet II just blinks. What gives? I don't know the answer, but I have used one system like that and by using lptcontrol to switch from interrupts to polled makes it usable but still not as fast as it should be. -- *** Net and mailer reconfig is going on @hda.com. Problems to hdslip@iii.net Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267