Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
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 in

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
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

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Danny Pansters
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 hav

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
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 inst

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Chris
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 install

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Glyn Millington
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 vi

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Roland Smith
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

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-11 Thread Glyn Millington
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

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Roland Smith
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=0x2

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Glyn Millington
"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 __

RE: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[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.free

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
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 quali

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
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-Prin

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
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

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anish Mistry
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

Re: Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread John Conover
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 ins

Very slow printing with stock FreeBSD5.3 + CUPS + Gimp-Print + HPDeskJet612C

2005-04-10 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
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.cs