Re: everything slows to a crawl when printing (HP)

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 06/02/04


Date: 2 Jun 2004 12:53:51 GMT

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:54:28 GMT, Mike Ballard staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> I'm using hpoj 0.91 and hpijs 1.4.1 with an HP OfficeJet 6110 printer.

Parallel or USB? If USB, USB 1 or 2?

> When I print something, from OO for instance, or xv, the computer
> slows to an unacceptable crawl until processing/printing are done
> (Athlon 1.6G, 768M RAM, Linux kernel 2.6, cups 1.1.20).

If this is a parport printer, make sure that you're using
interrupt-driven printing instead of polling. Post the output of the
tunelp command and look through the output of dmesg for anything that
relates to the printer port.

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