From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 21:04:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA11837 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from info.tsu.tomsk.su (info.tsu.tomsk.su [194.226.48.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA11812 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 21:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by info.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.2) with UUCP id EAA03915; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 04:36:43 +0800 (TSD) Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA00616; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:04:38 +0800 (TSD) From: Victor Sudakov Message-Id: <199709161604.AAA00616@vas.tsu.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: Printing pauses, why? To: font@mcs.net (Font) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:04:37 +0800 (TSD) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, font@mcs.net In-Reply-To: from "Font" at "Sep 14, 97 04:55:57 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Font wrote: > I've started to set up printing on a FreeBSD 2.2-9706xx-RELENG box and the > instructions from the Handbook seem to be pretty thorough. In fact, > printing seems to work from the box to the Panasonic KX-P4400 printer I > have hooked up. However, when I spool something (with "lptest 80 50 | > lpr"), the printer receives part of the output right away, then it WAITS > FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES, then seems to get the rest of the output and > prints it. The filter I'm using does emit a form feed at the end. > > Does anyone have any idea why printing pauses for so long? I haven't > changed much from the GENERIC kernel except to add tun0. Could this pause > be coming from whether the printer is configured for polling or > interrupts? I used to have a similar problem on 2.1.0 until I replaced interrupt driven mode for the port with polling mode. I think in my case it was an interrupt conflict because my soundcard defaults to IRQ7. -- Victor Sudakov mailto:vas@obluo.tomsk.su http://www.obluo.tomsk.su/~vas PGP public key: finger vas@obluo.tomsk.su