From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 14:17:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6905A15391 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:17:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id QAA94788; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:16:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:16:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907272116.QAA94788@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Guy Middleton Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 2100 printer with ghostscript 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > I may stick the Epson Stylus in the next room on my box to try to see if this is 2100-specific. Unless someone in the know gives me a hint ;-) I'll let you know the outcome (may be several days until I get time). -- 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