From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 17:32:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18BBC16A400 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:32:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5CF313C478 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l12HW5QZ077740; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:32:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C1B92B827; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:32:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:32:05 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Jost Menke Message-ID: <20070202173205.GA86562@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Jost Menke , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel port printer: interrupt storm & system slowdown with 6.2-release X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:32:08 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Jost Menke wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I am having big trouble getting my parallel port printer to work on =20 > 6.2-release. I am getting lots of those famous "stray irq7" messages. I = =20 > already knew that from my 5.4 installation which I previously had on the = =20 > same hardware, so I tried so set the parallel port mode with lptcontrol = =20 > (lptcontrol -d did the trick under 5.4). Tried all the modes, but no =20 > difference! Using the printer even slows down my whole system to an =20 > unusuable state. Any ideas what the difference to 5.4 is or what I could = =20 > do? Put the parallel port in polling mode with 'lptcontrol -p'. Or by putting 'hint.ppc.0.flags=3D"0x28"' in /boot/device.hints, and reboot.=20 Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFw3WVEnfvsMMhpyURAoIcAJkBNEtID4VR9T2yP4I4dDce+0lpaACfSqHv oLLplUfUpsajpcyCjThi7wU= =My89 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--