On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:45, Helmut Walle wrote: ... > > For the first time, I installed a parport scanner under Linux, and it > > is incredibly sloooooowww! > > [ ... ] > > > The BIOS parport setting is EPP (I also tried ECP/EPP), and dmesg > > says: > > > > ... > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] ... > > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > > ... > > Here is the problem ^^^^^^^ > > Switch on the interrupt for the deveice and you will notice considerable > performance improvement.
So I did (it was switched on in the BIOS, anyway, but I set it to irq=7 in the modules.conf, too). Quite interestingly, CPU load did not change a bit, and things also did not get any faster. Well, having found now that the mustek_pp backend does not use the kernel parport support, this is not surprising any more... Kind regards, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 03 - 388 39 54 | +----------------+
