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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