From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 22:41:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22084 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22078 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00361; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:41:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Leon Kaplan cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 5L In-Reply-To: <199608300820.KAA13342@trick.cslab.tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Leon Kaplan wrote: > I followed the steps in the handbook but I just can't seem to > get this working: > > My HP 5L is on /dev/lpt0. When I try to "cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lpt0" then > (appart from the missing LF -> CR+LF translation) everything gets > printed _very_ slowly (1/2 page per minute). If I use a simple filter script > as the one below then I have the same problem. Could this be because of > interrupt driven mode? Should I switch to polling? Any experiences? Try polled mode. It sounds like an IRQ problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major