Re: Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system

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.


ciao

Dieter