Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:02:49 -0400 From: Steve Marmer <ids@interlog.com> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot do sound and printing at same time Message-ID: <341EE5E9.ED8F7200@interlog.com> References: <341D59FD.3C440D81@interlog.com> <19970916104525.06967@ct.picker.com>
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Randall Hopper wrote: > Steve Marmer: > > |Running 2.2.2 right now yet for the longest time I have not been > able to > |build a kernel that will allow the use of sound as well as > printing. It > |seems like it must be one or the other. I have a SB AWE 32. If I > recall > > As others have suggested, you can flip your printer driver to polled > mode > (lptcontrol -p). Another fix would be to move your SB AWE 32 to the > standard IRQ for SB cards -- IRQ 5. I have a SB 32 as well. > Am I to understand, then, that polled mode means I can do both printing and sound without troubles, without boot-time kernal adjustments, etc? IRQ5 would be good if my ethernet card wasn't using it. (I had quite the IRQ crunch on my 486, but now that I have a PCI/Cyrix6x86 system I should take another look.) Many thanks to all who've replied.
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