Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:45:55 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Milan Knizek <knizek@volny.cz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070309134522.024c3250@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <200703092025.34406.knizek@volny.cz> References: <200703092025.34406.knizek@volny.cz>
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You may be able to change the port setting in your BIOS, most newer BIOS=20
allow this.
-Derek
At 01:25 PM 3/9/2007, Milan Knizek wrote:
>Hello list!
>
>I have spent some time installing Epson P2100 (aka P2200 in the U.S.) - the
>USB connection did not work (printer was recognised, but any access to it
>caused only a quick double-tick of the printing head and nothing more). The
>good thing was that it supports also the parallel connection.
>
>Once connected via /dev/lpt0, the printer worked, but printed _very_ slowly
>(and /var/log/messages announced irq storm on irq7).
>
>A search on google revealed that it is possible to switch the port mode
>to "extended polling" by command "lptcontrol -e -d /dev/lpt0". Then, the
>printer worked normally.
>
>"ltpcontrol" supports only connected (and powered on) printers, which is
>usually not the case during boot, and it must be run with root privileges.
>
>My question: how do I set the default port mode to "extended polling" inst=
ead
>of "iterrupt driven" during the boot process?
>
>Thanks for ideas,
>Milan
>
>P.S.
>6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 on ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe with Pentium D.
>
>dmesg:
>ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 3=
on
>acpi0
>ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
>ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
>...
>lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>
>
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