OT(?) FC2 Very slow printing to HP DeskJet 870Cse

[Mike McCarty]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>I did find this...
>>
>># cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/irq
>>-1
>>
>>And -1 happens to be what tunelp reports.
>>
>>I wonder whether putting a 7 in there would help
>>any.
>>
> 
> Well, I have 7 in there, and "tunelp /dev/lp0" returns
> /dev/lp0 using IRQ 7
> 
> But I suspect you will get the same error as with tunelp.
> What you may want to do is the next time you boot the system,
> go into the BIOS setup and check the mode, and if it has an
> IRQ assigned to it.

I can't modify the "file". (Yes, I was root.)

>># cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/modes
>>PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP
>>
>>Hmm. EPP looks ok, I guess. I dunno what PCSPP means.
>>
> 
> I forget what it stands for, but I believe that is the mode where
> the port uses DMA for transfers.
> 
> 
>># cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/spintime
>>500
>>
>>I wonder whether tuning this might speed things up?
>>
> 
> Well, that is one of the things that tunelp is supposed to be tweak.
> You may want to use tunelp instead of writing it directly.

It seems that tunelp cannot modify that, either.

BIOS Reports I/O 378, IRQ 7, ECP mode.

Mike
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