From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 13:01:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA16471 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:01:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA16465 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marmer (gate2.ny.us.ibm.com [198.133.22.19]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.7.6) with ESMTP id QAA19059; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:00:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <341EE5E9.ED8F7200@interlog.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:02:49 -0400 From: Steve Marmer Organization: Integrated Digital Solutions Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randall Hopper CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot do sound and printing at same time X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <341D59FD.3C440D81@interlog.com> <19970916104525.06967@ct.picker.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Randall Hopper wrote: > Steve Marmer: > > |Running 2.2.2 right now yet for the longest time I have not been > able to > |build a kernel that will allow the use of sound as well as > printing. It > |seems like it must be one or the other. I have a SB AWE 32. If I > recall > > As others have suggested, you can flip your printer driver to polled > mode > (lptcontrol -p). Another fix would be to move your SB AWE 32 to the > standard IRQ for SB cards -- IRQ 5. I have a SB 32 as well. > Am I to understand, then, that polled mode means I can do both printing and sound without troubles, without boot-time kernal adjustments, etc? IRQ5 would be good if my ethernet card wasn't using it. (I had quite the IRQ crunch on my 486, but now that I have a PCI/Cyrix6x86 system I should take another look.) Many thanks to all who've replied.