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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slow printing Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:16:54 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4gqql6$ecq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4go58l$41v@marine.jumppoint.com> <4go5gk$41v@marine.jumppoint.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Steve "Kiwi" Roy <sroy@jumppoint.com> wrote: >sroy@jumppoint.com (Steve "Kiwi" Roy) wrote: >>I since upgraded the motherboard to a cyrix 5x86 and now my printing >>(parallel port) is slow. Like 1 line every 20 seconds. >>Any ideas anyone? > >I should add it is an onboard paralled port rather than a card as on >the 386. Disable the printer port on the motherboard, and use your card again. It looks like your onboard parallel has interrupt problems (or you have misconfigured it). >>Also how do I remove the banner page from print jobs? The `sh' (suppress headers) capability in /etc/printcap is your friend. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)