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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [?]FreeBSD 2.0 - 20 min to print 3 lines Date: 7 Jan 1995 20:06:16 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3ems7o$dms@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1995Jan5.003604.26140@wdl.loral.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1995Jan5.003604.26140@wdl.loral.com>, Richard Toren <rpt@miles> wrote: >The title states the problem. When I use lpr to print a 3 line file >I takes 20 minutes or so. Each line appears at 10 or 20 second intervals. .... >My onlly guess is that the Soundblaster board in my system is also >on interupt 7. I do not have the 'snd' device in the kernel gen >because I didn't know how to use the device driver. Good guess. Even though the driver isn't there, there is a hardware conflict (assuming you have a good LPT board with a working interrupt) which is causing problems. Either move the LPT interrupt or sound card interrupt and recompile your kernel for the new hardware configuration. Nate -- nate@FreeBSD.org | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@schizo.coe.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Got lots of offers for work, now I need to home #: (406) 586-0579 | decide which job to take. :)