From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 1: 1:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B9CF14BEA for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:01:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 12460 invoked by uid 268); 3 Mar 1999 11:02:50 -0000 Message-ID: <19990303110250.12459.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow In-Reply-To: from Alfred Perlstein at "Mar 3, 1999 3:30:34 am" To: bright@cygnus.rush.net (Alfred Perlstein) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:02:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: current@freebsd.org Reply-To: "Geoff Rehmet" From: "Geoff Rehmet" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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