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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!news.boulder.noaa.gov!news From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing problems Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:41:58 -0600 Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31AB1EC6.52BC@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <4o2s6k$bl3@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/715) It sounds like the classic polled/interupt-driven driver problem again. Try running (as root) ``lptcontrol -p'' to put the lpt driver into polled mode. Then print again and see if it's any faster. If it is faster, then you can put ``lptcontrol -p'' in your /etc/rc.local so at each boot-up you'll get a polled driver, or you can build a kernel with a polled driver. More details available under the Printing section in: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html (installed 2.1 or higher systems) http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html (elsewhere) -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/