Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:50:22 +0300 From: Vic <vic@avec.ua> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting LPT1 to polled mode via acpi Message-ID: <1088499022.47716.17.camel@outdoor.concern.avec> In-Reply-To: <230701088494370-8322179b0a16f@IWR50.412.spamsucks.net> References: <230701088494370-8322179b0a16f@IWR50.412.spamsucks.net>
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I have this problem to. I'm change conncetion to my printer (hp1200) from LPT to USB. В вт, 29.06.2004, в 12:32, DA. Forsyth пишет: > Hiya all > > I've got 5.2.1-RELEASE on a P4 1.1Ghz machine > I've setup a HP laserjet (iiP) on the first parallel port using a simple > filter to get the lines feeding correctly. > > Sometimes it actually prints, but mostly it will > send the job to the printer then WAAAAAIT till I formfeed. > After that it will NOT access the printer. > LPQ reports jobs in the queue, but also says > 'waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)' > > the printer is not offline. the cable it ok etc etc etc > resetting etc in LPC makes no difference > > I just need some simple text printing from this thing, can it really > be so hard? > > dmesg says about 'ppc' > ppc0 port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 > which is correct > > anyhow, I read the printing bit of the handbook, which referred me to > the IRQ setting and mentions some HP printers not working in IRQ > mode. > I commented the relevant line in /boot/device.hints > and rebooted > no change. > > I then read some more and went along to the acpi(4) man page and got > no further than suspecting > hw.acpi.pci.link.%d.%d.%d.irq > Override the interrupt to use. > is what I need to use to disable the IRQ on the parallel port (I > cannot do it in BIOS) > > however, nowhere can I find out what to put instead of %d.%d.%d to > tell it to NOT use IRQ's for the printer port, there is simply no > explanation for those numbers. > > please help > I need to print some of the conf files before I rebuild this box with an > IDE RAID card for the disks.... > > > -- > David /"\ > http://terrapin.ru.ac.za/~iwdf/ \ / > ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail > - - - - - - -> X > If you receive email saying "Send this to everyone you know," / \ > PLEASE pretend you don't know me. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Buhancov Vyacheslav mailto:vic@avec.ua TG5-UANIC VICS-RIPE
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