Re: 2.0.35 parallell port very slow

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:43:38 +0100


>has been great, but I have noticed one disturbing thing. If I set the DMA
>and IRQ of the parallel port to what Windows 98 uses, it goes so slow when
>printing. It prints a line then waits for more data I suppose. If I just
>set up the correct IO port, it works great.

Which kernel were you using? Historically in 2.1 there have been some
problems with interrupt-driven printing, particularly with Epson printers.

p.

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