Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Dieter Franzke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> P.U.Kruppa am Montag, 24. September 2007:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use a HP Deskjet 990 Cxi via parallel port with cups and hpijs
>> driver on
>>
>> FreeBSD pukruppa.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Sep
>> 21 16:52:59 CEST 2007 amd64
>>
>> When I try to print a little bit more complex documents
>> (OpenOffice, pdf) my System will crash.
>>
>> On my root terminal there will be a long list of
>> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
>> lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
>> [...]
>> lines, then some dumping activity and a reboot.
>>
>> I upgraded to 7.0 last week, so all I can say is: everything was
>> fine with 6.2 .
>>
>> Please tell me if you need more information.
>
> I've had the same here.
> Enabling polling via "lptcontrol -p /dev/lpt0" solved the problem.
Indeed!
Thanks!

Uli.

>
>
> ciao
>
> Dieter
>
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany