From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 13:42:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slash.ab.videon.ca (slash.ab.videon.ca [206.75.216.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3E537BA84 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwasser@v-wave.com) Received: from area51 (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.26.39]) by slash.ab.videon.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id OAA02685; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:41:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:41:50 -0600 X-Priority: 3 From: Chris Wasser X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: bright@wintelcom.net, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Multiple LPT Ports: Second Posting Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'll try that (in all certainty, I should have realized this long ago) however, I do have a problem with parallel ports under BSD regardless as it is, it would seem that interrupt-mode doesn't play nicely with any of the ports I've tried (from 486-class all the way to Athlon) and the ports have to be put into polling mode otherwise they print so slowly, I can get out and walk faster so-to-speak. I've read somewhere that EPP mode produces the best results for printing under BSD, I've gone this route with onboard ports trying interrupt-mode but produces the same result. Original message from: Alfred Perlstein >* Chris Wasser [000606 12:41] wrote: >> I have since continued to play with this problem trying to resolve >> with no luck. I find it VERY hard to believe FreeBSD cannot >> handle 3 LPT ports in one box. I really need this to work, so I'd >> appriciate any responses. > >If you want it to work then disable the IRQ for one of the ports, >you can have it work in 'polled mode' but that'll suck more CPU. > >-Alfred > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message