Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:23:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 2100 printer with ghostscript Message-ID: <199907272123.QAA94946@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990727171032.A19477@chaos.obstruction.com> References: <19990726232115.A15778@chaos.obstruction.com> <199907271421.JAA91253@beowulf.utmb.edu> <19990727161514.A18990@chaos.obstruction.com> <19990727163521.A19232@chaos.obstruction.com> <199907272050.PAA94582@beowulf.utmb.edu> <19990727171032.A19477@chaos.obstruction.com>
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Guy Middleton writes: > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:50:25PM -0400, M. L. Dodson wrote: > > Also, since I've put the 2100 on, ghostscript seems to suck up a > > lot more cpu than I remember it doing in the past (feeding ink > > jet printers). X becomes quite unusable during the print job (no > > mouse responsiveness at all, even with gs niced to 15). I > > thought that might be due to the change to ppbus from the old lpt > > driver of 2.2.x fame (This is a, not too recent, 3.2-STABLE box). > > Hmm. This is happening to me too. I tried doing lptcontrol -p, which > seemed to help, but I may be imagining things. > > Well lptcontrol -e definitely made a difference in the responsiveness of X to the mouse. Still a noticeable slowdown (and gs is still niced to 15), but a definite improvement if your hardware supports it. -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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