Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!uni-koeln!uvax!schulte From: schulte@thp.uni-koeln.de (Martin Schulte) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Printing Problems Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 90 12:48:00 GMT Sender: news@rrz.uni-koeln.de (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany Lines: 42 A while a ago, Alan M. Carroll(carroll@sunb.cs.uiuc.edu) wrote: >This is a followup concerning slow printing under 386/ix 2.0.2: . .(Theories about technical details) . >Problem: Printing on lp0 with 386/ix is very slow and bursty. >Solution: Install another parallel card, and move printing there. I had the same problem on one of my two 386-boxes, but the problem couldn't be fixed by by the above mentioned solution. Instead we found out that the problems begin after I started the ttymap(1, in the Operating System Guide). Even with /usr/lib/keyboard/usa.map as argument, the problem occured. With a self-defined map things went even worse, suddenly my MicroGnu (gnu-emacs downward compatible editor), the screen driver blocked so that I was forced to reboot. So I concluded that the ttymap program shouldn't be used. Without ttymap, even the paralell port on my Hercules card worked fine (==fast). For those of you who *really* need a keyboard remapping(Germans, French and other aliens), I suggest to use ioctl with KDSKBENT argument, description is found in keyboard(7, in the Operating System Guide). This can't do character composing and those things ttymap should be able to do, but it seems to work. I just did a simple hack, those who don't want to to rewrite their own mapping program from scratch can write me a little note and I'll send them my hacked C-program(certainly without comments, but nevertheless more or less readable (may be copied free, even for commercial use, provided the authors name is *NOT* included)) Hope it helps, Martin -- ---------------------------------- Martin Schulte Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Cologne/Germany Internet: schulte@thp.uni-koeln.de