From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 24 14:10: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2086C37B405 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08712; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:09:57 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3B365723.7C8E6E4D@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:09:55 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer problems References: <200106241828.f5OIScc25602@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Kevin: > > Actually, I don't think this is the case with your printer, but I > > thought I would give it a shot. I think it's a thing with the HP > > printers that they seem to not work very well unless you use polling. > > Ahh. This sounds interesting! I have been having the same problem with > my HP 610C. Is it possible to set up the printer to do polling in > FreeBSD? The only reference I see to polling in the man page is in > "BUGS" and it only says that: > Polling timeouts are controlled by counting loop iterations rather than > timers, and so are dependent on CPU speed. I think this can also be set in the kernel. Look at man ppbus and ppc. I can't remeber exactly, but isn't disabling an irq for the printer equivalent to polling mode? This would be possible there. Hth Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message