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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!pnl-oracle!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!lliu From: lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] printing problem ? Date: 5 Jun 1994 23:05:47 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2stlob$r7@news.u.washington.edu> References: <2st8j2$qem@news.u.washington.edu> <Cqy3oI.6Ms@hippo.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: goren.u.washington.edu csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes: >Does your printcap attempt to use /dev/lpa0 or /dev/lpt0? Note that >the generic kernels in 1.1R are configured to use the lpt driver only, >while 1.1BETA used lpa on on the first 2 printer ports. >You will probably have to change your printcap file to use /dev/lpt0 >instead of /dev/lpa0, (or recompile your kernel ;-) >Just check (either when your machine boots, or by using dmesg) which >printer ports are actually probed. Thank you very much for your help. And I found that, too. I'm using lpt0 now. But the printing speed is extremely slow. The printer prints one line and stops for a few seconds and continues. It seems that the daemon sends one line for one time. Takes 5 minutes to get a half-page printout. Any idea about this? Thanks again. Eugene