From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 03:00:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703D116A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:00:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1052A43D4C for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:00:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0IER00401HOP23@asu.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:00:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) <0IER0029THOPT2@asu.edu>; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:00:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (enuxgs.eas.asu.edu [149.169.30.26]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id j3B30Jj5011941; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:00:25 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:00:18 -0400 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" In-reply-to: <200504102131.10222.mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Anish Mistry Message-id: <5b38bf99329a5508b1fe95b5b29f6b34@asu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <3d4917d89fcf710e1ada055cb7bd4de9@asu.edu> <200504102131.10222.mistry.7@osu.edu> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 03:00:54 -0000 I forgot to mention that after the first reply to my thread by John, I turned the resolution down to 150x150 (the lowest it would go) and black and white (not even grayscale). Putting the interrupt at 5 as opposed to 7 allowed for one whole test page to print straight through. Turning the quality to 300x300 grayscale promoted the same problem with the dmesg message: Interrupt storm detected on "irq5: lpt0"; throttling interrupt source On Apr 10, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:34 pm, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). >> I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 >> straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little >> software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation >> instructions from >> >> http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html >> >> It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, >> and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page >> took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info >> that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the >> right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some >> searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS >> documentation and forums and did not see anything either. >> > If you are using the parallel port it sounds like an interrupt > problem. Check you settings in the BIOS and try different ECP/EPP > settings for the port. > > -- > Anish Mistry