From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 2 16:14:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA07570 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 16:14:20 -0800 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA07563 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 16:14:14 -0800 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <08734-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 10:13:24 +1000 Received: from saturn.mincom.oz.au by minbne.mincom.oz.au with SMTP id AA28583 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for bmoffatt@byron.apana.org.au); Tue, 3 Jan 1995 09:55:58 +1000 Received: by saturn.mincom.oz.au id AA20222 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com); Tue, 3 Jan 1995 09:51:35 +1000 From: Ian Holland Message-Id: <199501022351.AA20222@saturn.mincom.oz.au> Subject: Re: Driving Canon bj10e To: bmoffatt@byron.apana.org.au (Bruce Moffatt) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 09:51:35 +1000 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199501011059.AA26108@byron.apana.org.au> from "Bruce Moffatt" at Jan 1, 95 09:29:25 pm Reply-To: ianh@mincom.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 841 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Moffatt enscribed: > > Problem: > I am running freebsd 1.1 on a 486-33. I have a Canon bj10e on lpt0, which > is giving good output (now that I have switched dip switch 6 to add auto > CR to LF), but the printer runs so slowly its not a workable solution. > I will be upgrading to FreeBSD 2.? as soon as I am comfortable I can tame > the beast (hopefully 2.1 will install easier than 2.0) > Any help on printer problem gratefully accepted. :) I used to have this same setup (except it was a 386-33), and know what you mean. The solution I found (and you probably aren't going to like this) was to upgrade to 1.1.5 - even the ghostscript output appeared to scream on through. So, I guess, if you can hold on until you go to 2.0, you won't have the problem any longer. -- Ian Holland Mincom Pty Ltd ianh@mincom.oz.au