From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 18: 8: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-34.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7843137B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:08:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1K29Mc92718 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:09:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:09:22 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: To: Subject: Re: ppc0, lpt0, ppbus, and irq selection In-Reply-To: <3A74E006.39FAF92E@dccnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apologies for the belated reply. On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: > Chris BeHanna wrote: > > > > Is it absolutely required to run your parallel port and printer > > from IRQ 7? I have a box with every slot filled, and due to the fact > > that one of my PCI slots is hardwired to IRQ 5 (curse ABIT for this!), > > my only available choice for my SB16 card is 7, so I tried running > > ppbus etc. on irq 3, but all I get is gibberish from the printer. > > You can also run it in polled mode. See: > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/printing-intro-setup.html This information was OK for 3.x. It is not applicable for 4.x, although it got me thinking, and "man ppc" told me the rest. This configuration setting did the trick for me: # Force NIBBLE mode and disable use of an IRQ device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x21 Now, both sound and printing work. I hope this helps someone else with a full motherboard and IRQ conflicts. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message