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From: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Printing under FreeBSD 1.5.1.1
Date: 15 Aug 1994 12:33:05 +0800
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Markus Meister (h5h1@rick.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
: Not being a UNIX expert, I've been having a hard time printing to my
: li'l 24-pin printer. I tried 2 different ways, with lpr and by writing
: to /dev/lpt1
: Both ways it prints, but extremely slowly.. the printer only prints a few
: characters at a time... is this because my computer isn't very fast
: (a DX2-66, as opposed to a real unix workstation), and FreeBSD just doesn't
: give the printing a lot of attention, or is something set up wrong?
You are no orphan, I and atleast one other person have exactly the same
problem. The printer driver in the kernel may be the problem, or the
new way interrupts are handled, at least with some cheap serial/paralell
cards. I've been in touch with the author of lpt.c who told me this. He
is a little busy for the moment and probably won't be able to fix the
problem very soon.
BTW, my hardware is DX2-66 and I've tried two printers, a Brother M-1709
and an epson LX-800 with the same results.
Sorry I can't help, maybe someone else has a patch?
Terry
: - Markus
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