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Date:      Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:01:39 +0100
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@fr.alcove.com>
To:        culverk@wam.umd.edu
Cc:        Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: parallel port i/o hogs cpu badly; is this normal?
Message-ID:  <20011204130139.G6345@cedar.alcove-fr>
In-Reply-To: <20011202191049.28EF137B417@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20011202132001.A42382@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20011202191049.28EF137B417@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:10:58PM -0500, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> I don't know if there's a way to stop this, but it's normal, whenever I use 
> my Parallel port zip drive, I have similar problems.

For extended mode, currently FIFO+DMA, you may try :

lptcontrol -e

By this is experimental. It worked on my own config, but nobody else tried
it, even me since a long time.

Otherwise, you have

lptcontrol -i

but this should be the default already.

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