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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:31:04 -0400
From:      "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@asu.edu>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
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In-Reply-To: <20050411065750.GA61757@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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It appears that "0x28" fixed the problem. Thank you to all who have 
contributed to this thread.

Out of curiosity, now that the solution is known, what was the problem 
and what is the fix doing to solve it?

On Apr 11, 2005, at 2:57 AM, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:36:32AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>> "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@asu.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Interrupt storm detected on "irq7: lpt0"; throttling interrupt source
>
>> 1. Back up /boot/device.hints
>> 2. In device hints add a line
>>
>> hint.ppc.0.flags="0x20"
>
> Flags=0x20 means disabling IRQ and use polling instead. If you add 0x08
> it also puts the port in enhanced capability mode. So try flag=0x28, 
> and
> use 0x20 if that doesn't work.
>
>> AFTER the line which says
>>
>> hint.ppc.0.irq="7"
>
> You can remove this line, because flags=0x20 instructs the driver to 
> use
> polling instead of an interrupt line.
>
> Roland
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