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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:01:10 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Multiple LPT Ports: Second Posting
Message-ID:  <20000606140110.P17973@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <SAK.2000.06.06.jmskefsr@area51>; from cwasser@v-wave.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 02:41:50PM -0600
References:  <SAK.2000.06.06.jmskefsr@area51>

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* Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com> [000606 13:42] wrote:
> 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.

this reeks of an IRQ misassignment.

-Alfred


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