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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:53:00 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        gary.jennejohn@freenet.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system
Message-ID:  <46F94AFC.1000808@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070925144222.33cb0f70@peedub.jennejohn.org>
References:  <20070924051118.H9923@small>	<200709241951.28762.sysinstall@gmx.net>	<20070925041717.W1660@small> <20070925144222.33cb0f70@peedub.jennejohn.org>

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Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 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
> 

Please, can we focus on fixing the problem instead of institutionalizing 
workarounds? :)

Kris




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