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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!zuul.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question about Printing speed. Date: 5 Dec 1995 14:36:52 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4a1le4$1ml@zuul.nmti.com> References: <49vjvo$76g@news.map.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com In article <49vjvo$76g@news.map.com>, <jay@map.com> wrote: > Would anyone know why the fbsd print daemon sends stuff to the printer > as slow as it seems to here? [...] a line per minute or two. I've seen that. I fixed it by replacing my parallel card. I guess it's a symptom of a printer port with screwed up or just plain missing interrupts. Since DOS doesn't use the printer interrupt, a lot of parallel cards are like this. I would assume FreeBSD is not seeing the interrupt, timing out, and sending the next byte anyway. Try using the interruptless driver... but beware. When I did that my printer missed characters. I guess the interruptless driver watches some line that my printer was asserting too soon. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them