Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:02:50 +0000 (GMT) From: "Geoff Rehmet" <geoffr@is.co.za> To: bright@cygnus.rush.net (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow Message-ID: <19990303110250.12459.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990303032843.7848G-100000@cygnus.rush.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Mar 3, 1999 3:30:34 am"
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Alfred Perlstein writes : > > 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! > > have you tried: > lptcontrol -p > > I remeber the friendlies on #freebsd suggesting this > to me when i had similar symptoms last year. It's a long long time since I was working on the lpt driver. This kind of symptom was a common problem during its development. I haveen't been able to really appreciate the code for the nltp driver, so I also can't really see if there is a problem. Biggest problem when I was hacking on the lpt driver was that interrupts tended to get lost sometimes. I seem to recall, that there were some problems with slow printing that just could not be fixed. Going into polled mode (lptcotnrol -p) is probably your best bet at the moment. Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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