From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 17:02:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA28848 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:02:07 -0800 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk [128.86.8.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA28840 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:02:05 -0800 Via: uk.ac.london-guildhall.tower-unix; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 01:01:34 +0000 From: James Vaughton Message-Id: <10780.9503130100@unixa.unixa.clp.ac.uk> Subject: Two problems: printer speed and tcl/tk install... HELP! To: freebsd-questions (FreeBSD Questions List) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 1:00:05 GMT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL0] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Two quick problems, any suggestions folks ? ... 1.) Printing from 2.0-RELEASE on a parallel printer on a P90 on device /dev/lpt0... When printing on this device the printer seems to print at a rate of somewhere between one and two characters per second. It should be said that it does print exactly the right thing just very, VERY, VERY slowly... The cables and printer seem to be alright (from DOS it prints at about 80-100 characters per second). Could lpd have been "nice'd" somehow down far too low or something similar ? I should probably also mention that FreeBSD is running with XFree86 and every other application seems to run without any speed problems either in single user mode or under X. The printcap entry simply lists the device as /dev/lpt0 (which I have re-MAKEDEV'd to check) without any filters or special abilities setup. 2.) I tried to install tcl/tk and XF and whenever I attempt to execute the wish interpreter I get back an error stating unable to initialise "tk_library" whatever that is... To install it I unpacked the distribution below /usr/local as the docs seem to suggest. I also ensured that /usr/local/lib was set in the ldconfig path. Any help greatly appreciated... Regards, James V. vaughton@unixa.lgu.ac.uk