Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:27:37 -0300 From: Suporte Matik <asstec@matik.com.br> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Jason Bacon <bacon@smithers.neuro.mcw.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/78711: Parallel printer incredibly slow Message-ID: <200503112027.41010.asstec@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200503112242.j2BMgArp066753@smithers.neuro.mcw.edu> References: <200503112242.j2BMgArp066753@smithers.neuro.mcw.edu>
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--nextPart1410204.RuImmmuZp0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 11 March 2005 19:42, Jason Bacon wrote: > >Number: 78711 > >Category: kern > >Synopsis: Parallel printer incredibly slow > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Release: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386 > FreeBSD sculpin.tds.net 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 19 > 15:26:36 CST 2004 bacon@sculpin.tds.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sculpin= =20 > i386 > > >Description: > > The parallel printer runs ridiculously slow. It prints normally > for about 30 seconds, then prints one line every 5 or 10 minutes. > One photo from an iBook client to a Stylus 640 took about 12 hours > using lpd server to a raw printer queue. A page from konqueror > using stc_h driver with apsfilter took over an hour. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Print any lengthy document to the parallel printer. > any two lines text file needs 15 minutes to be printed > >Fix: > > lptcontrol -s resolves the problem. This looks to me much > like a timing issue that plagued some googlers in the late 1990s. > Running in polled mode on this system does not impact the system > (ASUS P5A, K6-2 500Mhz) significantly, > does not fix, the problem is as well with lpr and cups local/remote the only way to get "some more speed" is using b/w and 150 dpi on a HPDJ, a= ny=20 gray or color mode is slow > although it might on a faster, higher volume parallel printer. > For this reason, forcing the mode to something other than COMPATIBLE > via /boot/device.hints might be a better alternative for some > people. Check your BIOS to see what modes are supported for the > parallel port, and "man ppc" for details on port settings in > device.hints. doesn't matter what you set in the BIOS or whatever, any gray or colormode = on=20 5.3 is that inacceptable slow using the exactly same printer and port settings on 5.2.1 or 4.11 brings yo= u=20 back to the expected printing speed you even can use the exact same clean ports tree and compiling cupsd +=20 foomatic and 5.3 is slow and 5.2.1 and 4.11 is normal speed But printing to a remote cups tree from 5.3 is giving the normal performanc= e. Hans > > >Release-Note: > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 Infomatik implementamos asas na sua rede. (18)3551.3591 (18)8112.7007 _______________________________________________________ Participe! FreeBSD - Security - Wireless e outras Entre em http://listas.matik.com.br e inscreva-se! _______________________________________________________ Mensagens sem assinatura GPG n=E3o s=E3o nossas. Messages without GPG signature are not from us. _______________________________________________________ --nextPart1410204.RuImmmuZp0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCMils22x1wvvbslkRAmGQAJ0U6rqvc3uLVK4I78pLdHIlqS8T1gCg2PxT 2b/32YtscJlMpBX9Zqcv0Rg= =RKrX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1410204.RuImmmuZp0--
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