Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 06:30:00 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Geoff Rehmet <geoffr@is.co.za> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow Message-ID: <36DDA9D8.C3A1EA65@newsguy.com> References: <19990303110250.12459.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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Geoff Rehmet wrote: > > 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. I suspect changing the interrupt mask might also have an impact. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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