Re: irq 7

[Alson van der Meulen <alsonm@linuxfreak.com>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:06:40AM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I run a deb 2.2 system. When I try to print for the first time after boot
> , the system complies with the 
> following message:
> 
> " parport0: detected irq7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
> operation"
> 
> what does it mean?
you should use echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
(maybe a bit different path, guess it's this one)

don't ask me for the advantages of interrupt-driven mode, just telling
how to enable it.
> 
> 
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Ummm... Didn't you say you turned it off?
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