Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 16:46:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: printing very slow
Message-ID:  <199705142146.QAA01513@main.gbdata.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970514081503.213D-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> from Burton Sampley at "May 14, 97 08:19:20 am"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Burton Sampley wrote:
> 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).
> 
> Any ideas?

Try setting the printer in polled mode.  This is a classic example of
a interupt setup problem.

"lptcontrol -p"

> Burton

Gary

-- 
Gary Clark II   (N5VMF) |    I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company 
gclarkii@GBData.COM     |          Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team 
  Providing Internet and ISP startups - http://WWW.GBData.com for information
       FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/FAQ.latin1 



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199705142146.QAA01513>