Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:21:54 +0100 (BST) From: Tim Joseph <tim@weeble.org.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Does your printer snarl up after a reboot? Message-ID: <20010606211344.H13124-100000@doubtful.weeble.foo.uk>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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