parallel printer

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 04 February 2008 02:37:13 pm Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:11:41 -0800
> Jim Pazarena <famd64 at ccstores.com> wrote:
> 
> > I loaded 7.0RC1 on a new amd dual core machine
> > and when setting up the parallel printer actually,
> > when trying to print, the report starts, but the machine does
> > a panic and reboot.
> > 
> > The system works fine in all other aspects, such as it is handing
> > out DHCP properly to a few other computers, it functions fine
> > ethernet wise ('re' driver works as expected).
> > 
> > This core dump at parallel printing is a show stopper for me.
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> AFAIK there's an error in handling interrupts. Try ``lptcontrol -p''
> to run in polled mode (works for me).
> 
> Note that this problem is not specific to AMD64.

It should be fixed in RELENG_7 and RELENG_7_0.  RC2 should include the 
fix/workaround when it comes out.

-- 
John Baldwin