From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 09:28:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA03525 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:28:41 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA03519 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:28:39 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id SAA21896 ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:28:58 +0200 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25744; Sun, 2 Apr 95 18:28:23 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <9504021628.AA25744@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Speed while printing To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:28:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504012048.MAA19086@netcom16.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 1, 95 12:48:30 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development ctm#480 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 589 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Atleast under NetBSD the interrupting lpt driver does not > work too well. I think FreeBSD is the same.... You are > better off with the non interrupting version (minor device > number is incremented by 128 and it probaly called lpa0). I've been using the interrupt version as lpt0 for months and I do not have any slowdown when using it. The only very minor problem I got is that I can hear the bytes going out with my Soundblaster :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #7: Thu Mar 23 00:28:31 MET 1995