Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: It appears that 0x28 fixed the problem. Thank you to all who have contributed to this thread. Out of curiosity, now that the solution is known, what was the problem and what is the fix doing to solve it? The problem is that your printer port was being driven by interrupts and this was somehow not working -- the interrupts storm message you reported. I can't tell you the why, except that it's happened to me on several PCs. I regularly turn off interrupts on the ppc in the BIOS as well, just be very sure. Why did your fix work? Because you have instructed the port to not use interrupts. Re-read the ppc man page until it makes sense. If you don't know what an interrupt is, then try finding a book on PC hardware or search google. I'm sure there's a wiki or something out there somewhere -- there usually is :) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). Make sure your using the genuine HP bidirectional parallel printer cable. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source 1. Back up /boot/device.hints 2. In device hints add a line hint.ppc.0.flags=0x20 AFTER the line which says hint.ppc.0.irq=7 3. save and reboot hth Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:36:32AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source 1. Back up /boot/device.hints 2. In device hints add a line hint.ppc.0.flags=0x20 Flags=0x20 means disabling IRQ and use polling instead. If you add 0x08 it also puts the port in enhanced capability mode. So try flag=0x28, and use 0x20 if that doesn't work. AFTER the line which says hint.ppc.0.irq=7 You can remove this line, because flags=0x20 instructs the driver to use polling instead of an interrupt line. Roland -- R.F. Smith /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ /No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \Respect for open standards pgpgSvFjStPVl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:36:32AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source 1. Back up /boot/device.hints 2. In device hints add a line hint.ppc.0.flags=0x20 Flags=0x20 means disabling IRQ and use polling instead. If you add 0x08 it also puts the port in enhanced capability mode. So try flag=0x28, and use 0x20 if that doesn't work. AFTER the line which says hint.ppc.0.irq=7 You can remove this line, because flags=0x20 instructs the driver to use polling instead of an interrupt line. Right!! Many thanks. Can you point me to the docs for this? I'm very new to FreeBSD finished install with this printing problem yesterday! atb Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:27:33AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: 2. In device hints add a line hint.ppc.0.flags=0x20 Flags=0x20 means disabling IRQ and use polling instead. If you add 0x08 it also puts the port in enhanced capability mode. So try flag=0x28, and use 0x20 if that doesn't work. AFTER the line which says hint.ppc.0.irq=7 You can remove this line, because flags=0x20 instructs the driver to use polling instead of an interrupt line. Right!! Many thanks. Can you point me to the docs for this? I'm very new to FreeBSD finished install with this printing problem yesterday! The flags for the ppc driver are documented in the ppc(4) manual page. Just run 'man ppc' from the console or an xterm to view it. More information on setting up printers can be found in §9.3 of the Handbook. Some things that I learned while setting up my FreeBSD workstation are recorded at http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ Roland -- R.F. Smith /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ /No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \Respect for open standards pgpY99dDnLXnU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you point me to the docs for this? I'm very new to FreeBSD finished install with this printing problem yesterday! The flags for the ppc driver are documented in the ppc(4) manual page. Just run 'man ppc' from the console or an xterm to view it. More information on setting up printers can be found in §9.3 of the Handbook. Some things that I learned while setting up my FreeBSD workstation are recorded at http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ Just the job! Many thanks Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS documentation and forums and did not see anything either. Anthony, I too have this issue. I tried with my HP 1100, 1300 and a 4050 on 3 differant PC/laptops. The thing is, one of them, like yours, was a generic install w/gnome and I tried bot apsfilter and CUPS. Yet, everyone I have spoken with has no idea of the issues I'm dealing with. So for now, and untill I pop on 5.4, I'm gonna leave my printing for Windows. Yes, I tried the install via the Handbook, read the docs for apfilter, and the closest I get to printing is via CUPS - and with the same issues (and worse then you). Mine happen to be the GO light flashes for 20 minutes befor anything spits out. *shrug* -- Best regards, Chris The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying memo and go to file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Chris wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS documentation and forums and did not see anything either. Anthony, I too have this issue. I tried with my HP 1100, 1300 and a 4050 on 3 differant PC/laptops. The thing is, one of them, like yours, was a generic install w/gnome and I tried bot apsfilter and CUPS. Yet, everyone I have spoken with has no idea of the issues I'm dealing with. So for now, and untill I pop on 5.4, I'm gonna leave my printing for Windows. Yes, I tried the install via the Handbook, read the docs for apfilter, and the closest I get to printing is via CUPS - and with the same issues (and worse then you). Mine happen to be the GO light flashes for 20 minutes befor anything spits out. *shrug* Perhaps the quality setting is locked on high resolution? This would probably make the printer print quite slow if its an inkjet. Regards, Frank Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
On Monday 11 April 2005 18:52, Frank Laszlo wrote: Chris wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS documentation and forums and did not see anything either. Gimp-print is about the worst one could use. Use hpijs. Anthony, I too have this issue. I tried with my HP 1100, 1300 and a 4050 on 3 differant PC/laptops. The thing is, one of them, like yours, was a generic install w/gnome and I tried bot apsfilter and CUPS. Yet, everyone I have spoken with has no idea of the issues I'm dealing with. So for now, and untill I pop on 5.4, I'm gonna leave my printing for Windows. Yes, I tried the install via the Handbook, read the docs for apfilter, and the closest I get to printing is via CUPS - and with the same issues (and worse then you). Mine happen to be the GO light flashes for 20 minutes befor anything spits out. *shrug* Use hpijs (and hpoj) with cups. Works really well on my photosmart 2610 all-in-one thing. They're ports from HP's drivers for Linux: /usr/ports/print/hpijs /usr/ports/graphics/hpoj Perhaps the quality setting is locked on high resolution? This would probably make the printer print quite slow if its an inkjet. Regards, Frank Laszlo HTH, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
It appears that 0x28 fixed the problem. Thank you to all who have contributed to this thread. Out of curiosity, now that the solution is known, what was the problem and what is the fix doing to solve it? On Apr 11, 2005, at 2:57 AM, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:36:32AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Anthony M. Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source 1. Back up /boot/device.hints 2. In device hints add a line hint.ppc.0.flags=0x20 Flags=0x20 means disabling IRQ and use polling instead. If you add 0x08 it also puts the port in enhanced capability mode. So try flag=0x28, and use 0x20 if that doesn't work. AFTER the line which says hint.ppc.0.irq=7 You can remove this line, because flags=0x20 instructs the driver to use polling instead of an interrupt line. Roland -- R.F. Smith /\ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ /No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \Respect for open standards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Anthony M. Agelastos writes: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS documentation and forums and did not see anything either. Maybe, make sure you installed the correct driver-there are two; a high resolution, (something like 3K dots per inch, and it will only do 3K dots per inch, which makes it very slow,) and a driver that uses the CUPS specific version of ghostscript, ESP ghostscript, (the other drivers require all of gimp-print to be installed.) The ESP ghostscript drivers end with a -ijs extension, and that's probably the one you want. Look at the ppd file you installed in probably /usr/share/cups/model/ for something like: *cupsFilter: application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip and see if there is anything in the file ending with -ijs. John BTW, this solved the same thing on my Epson Photo Stylus 780. Maybe your problem, too. -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:34 pm, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS documentation and forums and did not see anything either. If you are using the parallel port it sounds like an interrupt problem. Check you settings in the BIOS and try different ECP/EPP settings for the port. -- Anish Mistry pgpMwOpB8y3vU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
After trying some various ideas, I ran dmesg and noticed the following message Interrupt storm detected on irq7: lpt0; throttling interrupt source This appears to be inline with what you are speaking of. Having said this, however, I played around with my BIOS settings and still could not get it to work. Here are the available options given. Parallel Port: Disabled Enabled Auto Mode: Output only Bi-directional EPP ECP Base I/O Address: 378 278 228 Interrupt: 5 7 DMA: 1 3 I am still playing around with combinations. Any suggestions? On Apr 10, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:34 pm, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS documentation and forums and did not see anything either. If you are using the parallel port it sounds like an interrupt problem. Check you settings in the BIOS and try different ECP/EPP settings for the port. -- Anish Mistry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
Thank you for your reply, When I installed CUPS (make make install), it defaulted to ghostscript-gnu-7.07_12. After that, I installed Gimp-print. To get the printer working, I used the web-based admin system (http://localhost:631) and chose the 600/600c series printer drivers (CUPS+Gimp-Print). This resulted in retardedly-slow prints. After posting the email, I then tried the HP DeskJet 600/600C - CUPS+Gimp-Print drivers and it has the same problem. I do not see any other options to choose for this printer in the dialogue I am given. Are you suggesting that CUPS should use ESP Ghostscript as opposed to the one it defaults to? If so, how do I go about doing this? I have not installed any PPDs manually (I relied on Gimp-Print). Maybe, make sure you installed the correct driver-there are two; a high resolution, (something like 3K dots per inch, and it will only do 3K dots per inch, which makes it very slow,) and a driver that uses the CUPS specific version of ghostscript, ESP ghostscript, (the other drivers require all of gimp-print to be installed.) The ESP ghostscript drivers end with a -ijs extension, and that's probably the one you want. Look at the ppd file you installed in probably /usr/share/cups/model/ for something like: *cupsFilter: application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip and see if there is anything in the file ending with -ijs. John BTW, this solved the same thing on my Epson Photo Stylus 780. Maybe your problem, too. -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C
I forgot to mention that after the first reply to my thread by John, I turned the resolution down to 150x150 (the lowest it would go) and black and white (not even grayscale). Putting the interrupt at 5 as opposed to 7 allowed for one whole test page to print straight through. Turning the quality to 300x300 grayscale promoted the same problem with the dmesg message: Interrupt storm detected on irq5: lpt0; throttling interrupt source On Apr 10, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:34 pm, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: Hello all, My HP DeskJet 612C printer is printing unbearably slow (0.033 PPM). I have a stock installation (GENERIC KERNEL) of FreeBSD 5.3 straight off of the install CDs, and I have installed very little software thus far. I have mainly followed the installation instructions from http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html It basically prints one line at a time, then pauses for a while, and makes some noises, and then repeats. The whole single test page took over 30 minutes to print. Does anyone have any insight/info that they can give me to solve this problem or point me in the right direction of solving it? I have Googled and done some searching and did not come up with anything. I checked the CUPS documentation and forums and did not see anything either. If you are using the parallel port it sounds like an interrupt problem. Check you settings in the BIOS and try different ECP/EPP settings for the port. -- Anish Mistry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
