parallel port printer: interrupt storm & system slowdown with 6.2-release

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Jost Menke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am having big trouble getting my parallel port printer to work on  
> 6.2-release. I am getting lots of those famous "stray irq7" messages. I  
> already knew that from my 5.4 installation which I previously had on the  
> same hardware, so I tried so set the parallel port mode with lptcontrol  
> (lptcontrol -d did the trick under 5.4). Tried all the modes, but no  
> difference! Using the printer even slows down my whole system to an  
> unusuable state. Any ideas what the difference to 5.4 is or what I could  
> do?

Put the parallel port in polling mode with 'lptcontrol -p'. Or by
putting 'hint.ppc.0.flags="0x28"' in /boot/device.hints, and reboot. 

Roland
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