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" instead 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 -- Milan Knížek http://milan-knizek.net/ e-mail knizek {na} volny {v} cz _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
