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Subject: lpt printer so slow
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>Number:         25695
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       printer on lpt is so slow
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 11 01:50:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 11 22:11:01 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 11 22:12:27 PST 2001
>Originator:     Wei-Kai Wu
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Kavalan
>Environment:

ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x4 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP-only) in EPP mode (EPP 1.9)
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6MP> PJL,MLC,PCLXL,PCL,POSTSCRIPT
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port

>Description:

When I send a file to the lpt printer, the OS almost hangs.
After finishing printing the file, the OS come alive again.
I have tried ECP,EPP mode respectively. Is there any solution
the "SLOW" printing? (We have no money to buy a network print kit)

>How-To-Repeat:

Trivial.

>Fix:

No idea.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: keichii 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 11 22:11:01 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Closing this PR.  Many people have already answered his 
question on freebsd-tw mailing lists.  He still sent the PR. 

By the way, there is no way we can redesign the crappy parallel port design. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25695 
>Unformatted:

