Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:27:37 -0300 From: Suporte Matik <asstec@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Jason Bacon <bacon@smithers.neuro.mcw.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/78711: Parallel printer incredibly slow Message-ID: <200503112027.41010.asstec@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200503112242.j2BMgArp066753@smithers.neuro.mcw.edu> References: <200503112242.j2BMgArp066753@smithers.neuro.mcw.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Friday 11 March 2005 19:42, Jason Bacon wrote: > >Number: 78711 > >Category: kern > >Synopsis: Parallel printer incredibly slow > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386 > FreeBSD sculpin.tds.net 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 19 > 15:26:36 CST 2004 bacon@sculpin.tds.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sculpin > i386 > > >Description: > > The parallel printer runs ridiculously slow. It prints normally > for about 30 seconds, then prints one line every 5 or 10 minutes. > One photo from an iBook client to a Stylus 640 took about 12 hours > using lpd server to a raw printer queue. A page from konqueror > using stc_h driver with apsfilter took over an hour. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Print any lengthy document to the parallel printer. > any two lines text file needs 15 minutes to be printed > >Fix: > > lptcontrol -s resolves the problem. This looks to me much > like a timing issue that plagued some googlers in the late 1990s. > Running in polled mode on this system does not impact the system > (ASUS P5A, K6-2 500Mhz) significantly, > does not fix, the problem is as well with lpr and cups local/remote the only way to get "some more speed" is using b/w and 150 dpi on a HPDJ, any gray or color mode is slow > although it might on a faster, higher volume parallel printer. > For this reason, forcing the mode to something other than COMPATIBLE > via /boot/device.hints might be a better alternative for some > people. Check your BIOS to see what modes are supported for the > parallel port, and "man ppc" for details on port settings in > device.hints. doesn't matter what you set in the BIOS or whatever, any gray or colormode on 5.3 is that inacceptable slow using the exactly same printer and port settings on 5.2.1 or 4.11 brings you back to the expected printing speed you even can use the exact same clean ports tree and compiling cupsd + foomatic and 5.3 is slow and 5.2.1 and 4.11 is normal speed But printing to a remote cups tree from 5.3 is giving the normal performance. Hans > > >Release-Note: > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Infomatik implementamos asas na sua rede. (18)3551.3591 (18)8112.7007 _______________________________________________________ Participe! FreeBSD - Security - Wireless e outras Entre em http://listas.matik.com.br e inscreva-se! _______________________________________________________ Mensagens sem assinatura GPG não são nossas. Messages without GPG signature are not from us. _______________________________________________________ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCMils22x1wvvbslkRAmGQAJ0U6rqvc3uLVK4I78pLdHIlqS8T1gCg2PxT 2b/32YtscJlMpBX9Zqcv0Rg= =RKrX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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