Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:28:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) Cc: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Speed while printing Message-ID: <9504021628.AA25744@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <199504012048.MAA19086@netcom16.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 1, 95 12:48:30 pm
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> Atleast under NetBSD the interrupting lpt driver does not
> work too well. I think FreeBSD is the same.... You are
> better off with the non interrupting version (minor device
> number is incremented by 128 and it probaly called lpa0).
I've been using the interrupt version as lpt0 for months and I do not
have any slowdown when using it. The only very minor problem I got is
that I can hear the bytes going out with my Soundblaster :-)
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #7: Thu Mar 23 00:28:31 MET 1995
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