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

[Jost Menke]

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:32:05 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:


> 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


I already tried all the lptcontrol modes, including "-p", without success.  
Any other ideas?

Regards,
Jost Menke