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From: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek)
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To: steve@cioeserv.cioe.com
Subject: Re: lpd slow?
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the best indicator that your hardware does not have working irq
hardware is slow printing :-). you can just use lp control and set it
to polling mode and it will work. I would suggest getting another
iocard if you are sure yours is setup correctly.

Jim Leppek

> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Wed Sep 20 18:24:14 1995
> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 17:07:18 GMT
> From: Steve Ames <steve@cioeserv.cioe.com>
> To: bmk@dtr.com
> Subject: Re: lpd slow?
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
> 
> > >
> > > I just started lpd on my freebsd almost current system. When i use
> > > lpr to print a small sample file (say /etc/rc for instance) it prints
> > > it but it is _SLOW_. It took almost an hour to print the file. I'm
> > > printing to a panason kxp-2135 printer (which is dot-matrix). Still,
> > > its not that slow a printer.
> >
> > Are you using the lpt driver with or without irq7?  If so, are you
> > sure that your card actually has working irq hardware?  A lot of them
> > don't.
> >
> How would I determine if I'm using it or no? I believe that it _does_
> have working irq hardware, but I'm basing that on the FreeBSD boot
> summary:
> 
> lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
> 
> Perhaps this is incorrect?
> 
> 						-Steve
>