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

[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 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