Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:54:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De (Wolfgang Helbig) Cc: crtb@capecod.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow printer behavior Message-ID: <199705152154.QAA08063@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199705152133.XAA00461@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> from Wolfgang Helbig at "May 15, 97 11:33:25 pm"
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In a previous message, Wolfgang Helbig said:
> > Running FreeBSD 2.2.0-RELEASE.
> > Problem: Printer (a Canon BJ200 Bubble-Jet) runs at normal speed about
> > half the time, but often excruciatingly slowly. Sometimes it will print an
> > entire page, pausing about ten seconds between passes across the paper.
> > And other times it goes at normal speed. I use apsfilter and
> > ghostscript 3.51 for most printing.
> >
> > This behavior just began about a month ago. I think of a bad connection
> > somewhere, with an ACK signal failing or something like that. Or is it
> > possible that the printer port interrupt can get turned off, and the
> > /dev/lpt driver fails to restore it?
> >
> > Wonder if anyone else has seen this happen. I'd be grateful to find out!
>
> Nope, I'm using the same printer, apsfilter, ghostscript 2.6.2 and -current
> and never seen anything like that.
You might try setting your lpt port to polling instead of interrupt, and see
if that does anything. Polling should be more efficient that interrupts
anyway. I have a BJC-4100 on mine.
You can put it in your config with:
device lpt0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty
Or set it via the command line with:
lptcontrol -p -u 0
Paul.
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