A follow-up..

I installed FreeBSD 5.4 on the same machine. I tried "lptest >
/dev/lpt0" and received the following message:

Interrupt storm detected on "irq7: lpt0"; throttling interrupt source

So ok, there's a problem with the interrupt line. I then remembered
reading something about that in the FreeBSD handbook printing section.
Indeed, in section 9.3.1.3.1 it is reported that some "newer" HP
printers (I use a HP LaserJet 1100) don't work correctly in interrupt
mode. So I followed the easiest route to change to polling mode, by
using "lptcontrol -p -d /dev/lpt0". That worked (somewhat, only one
line was printed). I guess I would have to install the proper filters
for my printer to work under FBSD.

I found the following message in the OBSD mailing-list:

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-10/0578.html

I'll read the lpt man page!

Pascal



On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:29:42 -0700, "OpenBSD" <openbsdml@fastmail.fm>
said:
> I installed OpenBSD 3.7 on a Compaq Presario 5304. That is an old
> (about 7 years old I believe) PC. The dmesg is appended to this
> email.
>
> I noticed two rather strange problems during the installation and the
> post-installation.
>
> During the installation, at the disklabeling step, I entered "a a" to
> add the root partition. The computer just froze. I had to turn it
> off. I redid the exact same steps and on the second time it just
> worked. Strange.
>
> BTW, I believe this machine is reliable. It has been running Windows
> 2000 day and night for more than a year without a crash. I understand
> that shit can happen though. Maybe the RAM went kaput or.....
>
> The other problem I encountered was while I tried to setup my laser
> printer. To check if I OpenBSD was able to talk to the printer, I
> typed "lptest > /dev/lpt0". On the first try, the computer just
> rebooted. On the second, it froze. (lptd was enabled in
> rc.conf.local)
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Pascal
>
> p.s.: sorry about the possible bad English. It ain't my native
> tongue.
>
> p.p.s.: I read the afterboot(8), the whole FAQ, the FreeBSD Handbook
> printer section and a whole lot of pages found through Google. It
> seems I am one of a kind (well, the PC is..)
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> the dmesg output:
>
> OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005
> deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Cyrix 6x86MX ("CyrixInstead" 686-class) 250 MHz
> cpu0: FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,CX8,PGE,CMOV,MMX,TM2,CNXT-ID
> real mem = 62431232 (60968K)
> avail mem = 49500160 (48340K)
> using 787 buffers containing 3223552 bytes (3148K) of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(7b) BIOS, date 05/08/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
> 0xfb470
> apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
> apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xb90c
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf00/144 (7 entries)
> pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 3 5 10 11
> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:01:0 ("SIS 85C503 System" rev
> 0x00)
> pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
> cpu0 at mainbus0
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "SIS 530 PCI" rev 0x02
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "SIS 5513 EIDE" rev 0xd0: 530: DMA,
> channel 0 w
> ired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST34311A>
> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 4112MB, 8421840 sectors
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0
> scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
> cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <LITEON, CD-ROM LTN323, DQ15> SCSI0
> 5/cdrom remova
> ble
> cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "SIS 85C503 System" rev 0xb1
> "SIS 5595 System" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 not configured
> ohci0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "SIS 5597/5598 USB" rev 0x11: irq 3,
> version 1.0,
> legacy support
> usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0 at usb0
> uhub0: SIS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "SIS 86C201 AGP" rev 0x00
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "SIS 530 VGA" rev 0xa2: aperture at
> 0xe5000000, si
> ze 0x400000
> wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> rl0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11 address
> 00:50:ba:8
> c:dc:42
> rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy
> vr0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "VIA Rhine/RhineII" rev 0x06: irq 10
> address 00:50
> :ba:e7:fa:ba
> amphy0 at vr0 phy 8: Am79C873 10/100 PHY, rev. 0
> eso0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "ESS SOLO-1 AudioDrive" rev 0x01: ES1946,
> irq 5
> audio0 at eso0
> opl0 at eso0: model OPL3
> midi0 at opl0: <ESO Yamaha OPL3>
> isa0 at pcib0
> isadma0 at isa0
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard, using
> wsdisplay0
> pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
> wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi1 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> sysbeep0 at pcppi0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
> lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: LM78
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> eso0: mapping Audio 1 DMA using I/O space at 0x410
> biomask e34d netmask ef4d ttymask ffcf
> pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
> dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
> root on wd0a
> rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
> WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
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