From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 21:04:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16178 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.exo.net.au (root@sky-valley.exo.net.au [203.14.230.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16084 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bullseye.apana.org.au!andymac@mail.exo.net.au) Received: by mail.exo.net.au id m0yJtD5-0004tPC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:03:43 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA08080; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:31:16 +1000 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 06:26:29 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: rdmurphy@vt.edu cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really slow apsfilter In-Reply-To: <199803291958.OAA25412@neale.econ.vt.edu> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Russell D. Murphy wrote: > I have a new PII-266 running 2.2.5. At the moment, I'm the only > one using it and it's barely loaded. I installed apsfilter > (4.9.3) from the 2.2.5 CD-ROM ports collection. The printer > (connected to the parallel port) is an HP IIp. > > It is incredibly slow: 20 minutes to print > > lptest 20 5 | lpr -P ljet2p-letter-ascii-mono > > and several hours to print 5 pages from netscape (directed to lpr). > gs is installed and seems to work fine on its own. > > Any suggestions? Right now it's so slow as to be unusable. If your LPT port is using interupts, try changing it to polled mode. Refer to the lptcontrol man page, and check out the -p option. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message