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From: Tim Joseph <tim@weeble.org.uk>
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Subject: Does your printer snarl up after a reboot?
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Hi,

My printer used to lock up after a reboot. I'm running FreeBSD 4.3-stable,
and my printer is a HP970cxi on my parallel port (the port's mode didn't
affect things).

The relevant bit of my kernel config for the parallel port was:

device          ppc0    at isa? irq 7
device          ppbus           # Parallel port bus (required)
device          lpt             # Printer

This had not caused any problems with my old printer (an HP320 which was
much more simple and less easily confused).

I found a message in my dmesg output along the lines of "probing parallel
port for PnP devices". I thought that this might be causing the problem
and confusing my printer.

I changed my config to :

device          ppc0    at isa? irq 7
device          ppbus           # Parallel port bus (required)
options 	DONTPROBE_1284 # Avoid boot detection of PnP parallel devices
device          lpt             # Printer

This did the trick!

Has anyone else had any similar problems? Perhaps this might help.

From,

Tim


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