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

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:36:32AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande at asu.edu> 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
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