From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 0:27:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73ACB14BD8 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 00:27:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA08963; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:17:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@swimsuit.internet.dk) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:17:47 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland X-Sender: leifn@arnold.neland.dk To: Thomas Dean Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow In-Reply-To: <199903030732.XAA65447@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Thomas Dean wrote: > I am running smp, 4.0-current, as of Mon Feb 15 03:34:29 PST 1999. > > Printing is very slow. I have a HP LaserJet III attached to lpt0. > Printing in the pcl, text, mode is slower than I expect. Printing in > the postscipt mode is extremely slow. A 30K postscript file has been > OVER 5 minutes and is not finished! > > >From dmesg: > ... > ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa > ppc0: PC87334 chipset (PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > lpt0: on ppbus 0 > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port I have the same problem. The simple answer is that interrupt-driven printing doesn't work for you, and you have to switch to polled printing: lptcontrol -p But this leads to the question why it doesn't work for you and me, and how to debug it. Is it printer, cable, port, or freebsd-config, which is to blame? I don't know how to proceed either... Leif Neland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message