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

[Glyn Millington]

Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> writes:

> 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.

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