Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:32:05 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Jost Menke <cyberlab@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel port printer: interrupt storm & system slowdown with 6.2-release Message-ID: <20070202173205.GA86562@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <op.tm4k7syc63byix@mail.gmx.de> References: <op.tm4k7syc63byix@mail.gmx.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Jost Menke wrote: > Hi all, > > I am having big trouble getting my parallel port printer to work on > 6.2-release. I am getting lots of those famous "stray irq7" messages. I > already knew that from my 5.4 installation which I previously had on the > same hardware, so I tried so set the parallel port mode with lptcontrol > (lptcontrol -d did the trick under 5.4). Tried all the modes, but no > difference! Using the printer even slows down my whole system to an > unusuable state. Any ideas what the difference to 5.4 is or what I could > do? Put the parallel port in polling mode with 'lptcontrol -p'. Or by putting 'hint.ppc.0.flags="0x28"' in /boot/device.hints, and reboot. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFw3WVEnfvsMMhpyURAoIcAJkBNEtID4VR9T2yP4I4dDce+0lpaACfSqHv oLLplUfUpsajpcyCjThi7wU= =My89 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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