Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:42:22 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system Message-ID: <20070925144222.33cb0f70@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20070925041717.W1660@small> References: <20070924051118.H9923@small> <200709241951.28762.sysinstall@gmx.net> <20070925041717.W1660@small>
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:18:32 +0200 (CEST) "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> wrote: > 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! > To automate it add hint.ppc.0.flags="0x20" to /boot/device.hints -- Gary Jennejohn
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