Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 06:26:29 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really slow apsfilter Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.980331062404.267B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <199803291958.OAA25412@neale.econ.vt.edu>
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On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Russell D. Murphy wrote: > I have a new PII-266 running 2.2.5. At the moment, I'm the only > one using it and it's barely loaded. I installed apsfilter > (4.9.3) from the 2.2.5 CD-ROM ports collection. The printer > (connected to the parallel port) is an HP IIp. > > It is incredibly slow: 20 minutes to print > > lptest 20 5 | lpr -P ljet2p-letter-ascii-mono > > and several hours to print 5 pages from netscape (directed to lpr). > gs is installed and seems to work fine on its own. > > Any suggestions? Right now it's so slow as to be unusable. If your LPT port is using interupts, try changing it to polled mode. Refer to the lptcontrol man page, and check out the -p option. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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