Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:09:55 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer problems Message-ID: <3B365723.7C8E6E4D@gmx.de> References: <200106241828.f5OIScc25602@ptavv.es.net>
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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
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