Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bas Mevissen <> | Subject | Re: lp IRQ vanishing | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 1996 09:20:28 +0100 (MET) |
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> > > I was wanting to test out operating my printer using interrupt-driven > I/O rather than polling. So I executed "tunelp /dev/lp1 -i 7". That > seems to work -- for a while. If I do "tunelp /dev/lp1" it will > report that the parallel port is using IRQ 7 for a while, and then > will revert to reporting that it is using polling. This reversion > happens even if I'm not using the printer at the time. (I do have lpd > running, but nothing queued.) Does anyone have any idea what might be > going on? (I am using kernel 2.0.23 and Slackware 3.0.) > > Thanks, > > Dale > -- > Dale R. Worley Ariadne Internet Services > Voice: +1 617-899-7949 Fax: +1 617-899-7946 E-mail: worley@ariadne.com > "Internet-based electronic commerce solutions to real business problems." > > You are probably using lp.o as a module and you load it automagically with kerneld. So add the following line to /etc/conf.modules (and restart kerneld):
options lp irq=0,7,0
That's all folks :-)
Bas.
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