From 51978ad40af64a9fc3056352a4c22acc39dcee8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Fonvieille Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:31:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add information about polled mode port under 5.X With some help from: bde --- .../books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml index 8c16948141..8463ea879d 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml @@ -637,7 +637,24 @@ ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold If you want polled mode, do not add the irq specifier: + For FreeBSD 4.X, use the following line in + your kernel configuration file: + device ppc0 at isa? + + For FreeBSD 5.X, simply remove in your + /boot/device.hints file, the + following line: + + hint.ppc.0.irq="N" + + In some cases, this is not enough to put the + port in polled mode under FreeBSD 5.X. Most of + time it comes from &man.acpi.4; driver, this latter + is able to probe and attach devices, and therefore, + control the access mode to the printer port. You + should check your &man.acpi.4; configuration to + correct this problem.