From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 28 19:13:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kevine01.ugaloo.org (h209-5-131-239.dccnet.com [209.5.131.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553CF37B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dccnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kevine01.ugaloo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F819372; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:14:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A74E006.39FAF92E@dccnet.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:14:14 -0800 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: behanna@zbzoom.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppc0, lpt0, ppbus, and irq selection References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Regards, | Any and all errors in spelling are the | intellectual property of the author and Kevin G. Eliuk | are therefore governed by the copyright | laws of the jurisdiction in which they (604) 886-4040 | are received. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message