parallel printer

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 12:46:44 am Jim Pazarena wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> While 7.0RC2 now does indeed print as expected, each time I print the 
console
> echoes:
> 
> lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
> lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
> lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
> 
>   ... three iterations each time I print.

Yes, this is b/c the printer driver does some really dumb things.

-- 
John Baldwin