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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:17:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903030913160.7083-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199903030732.XAA65447@ix.netcom.com>

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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Thomas Dean wrote:

> I am running smp, 4.0-current, as of Mon Feb 15 03:34:29 PST 1999.
> 
> Printing is very slow.  I have a HP LaserJet III attached to lpt0.
> Printing in the pcl, text, mode is slower than I expect.  Printing in
> the postscipt mode is extremely slow.  A 30K postscript file has been
> OVER 5 minutes and is not finished!
> 
> >From dmesg:
> ...
> ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa
> ppc0: PC87334 chipset (PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port

I have the same problem.

The simple answer is that interrupt-driven printing doesn't work for you,
and you have to switch to polled printing: lptcontrol -p

But this leads to the question why it doesn't work for you and me, and how
to debug it. 

Is it printer, cable, port, or freebsd-config, which is to blame? I don't
know how to proceed either...

Leif Neland



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