Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:09:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: peter@clari.net.au Subject: Re: Help with sb Message-ID: <199612261609.RAA16953@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612261409.AAA24628@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 27, 96 00:39:04 am"
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As Michael Smith wrote: > You will have to permanently disable the printer port, or shift the > other card to a different IRQ. I would recommend the latter. You can run the printer driver without IRQs if you've got no other option. Of course, this will make it a CPU burner. It's only been invented to support printers or cables with a broken ACK signal. > Printer ports are generally found at IRQ 7. Many of them offer the option for IRQ 5 since this used to be the `official' LPT2 IRQ before IRQ lines got scarce, so IRQ 5 later became relabelled as ``generic IRQ''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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