From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 21 05:17:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA13027 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 05:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from milkyway.org (lta-r-1.usit.net [205.241.194.17] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA13015 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 05:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toby@milkyway.org) Received: from milkyway.org (rigel.milkyway.org [205.241.194.19]) by milkyway.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) with ESMTP id HAA16710; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 07:19:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <358CFB05.7B0065E9@milkyway.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 08:22:30 -0400 From: Toby Swanson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djv@bedford.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, eirvine@tpgi.com.au Subject: Re: slow printing References: <199806210326.XAA14940@lucy.bedford.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fixed! Thanks! Toby (toby@milkyway.org) CyberPeasant wrote: > Toby Swanson wrote: > > I have set up a print server running FreeBSD 2.1.7. The hardware > > seems to be set up correctly. When I "type" a file to lpt1: in DOS > > the printer prints it immediatly. When I cat a file to /dev/lpt0 in > > FreeBSD it prints a line, waits a second or two, prints a line, waits > > a second or two, and so on until the file has printed. Using the print > > spooler gets the same results. I checked the man pages, FAQ, > > Complete FreeBSD, no hits. The mailing list archive had one hit, but > > the message was not available. Any help, including pointers to other > > areas of info, is greatly appreciated. > > I can tell what's wrong, but not how to fix it: you're printing > to a port (lpt0) that uses interrupts, but the printer and/or the port > isn't cooperating. Try changing the port to "polling". > > lptcontrol -p > > If that doesn't work, then try > > lptcontrol -i > > which will switch to interrupt mode. > > Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message