From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 14 11:24:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA25625 for current-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA25589 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13013; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:17:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705141817.LAA13013@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: printing very slow To: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:17:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Burton Sampley" at May 14, 97 08:19:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is anybody else having problems printing under -current? I know I'm using > an ancient printer (Epson FX 80+ 9 pin dot matrix) but now it's printing > about 1 pass of the print head every 2 - 5 minutes. The printer itself > works fine in test mode. FWIW I'm using apsfilter from the ports > collection. I tried removing and re-installing apsfilter, but I keep > getting the same results. The last time I CVSUP'ed and made world > (include rebuilding the kernel) was yesterday afternoon (PST). This and your other problem sound like you have a heavy loose interrupt source in your machine. Probably a sound card. If it were just the build speed, I'd have said "check your 'Turbo' switch". 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.