On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote:
>
> > I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1..... surely it's better to document
> > what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for
> > another ("Why can't I use my ... printer?" :))
>
> In linux the lp module doesn't use an IRQ, it polls instead, doesn't it? I
> mean, look at this:
It can be set to poll or use an IRQ. I don't know of any distributions
that have it set up to use and IRQ by default.
> [7 mmagallo scratchy:~] cat /proc/interrupts
> 0: 924972 timer
> 1: 24832 keyboard
> 2: 0 cascade
> 3: 148937 NE2000
> 4: 14280 + serial
> 10: 1311714 + fdomain
> 13: 1 math error
> 14: 191086 + ide0
>
> and the printer does its job nicely...
>
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