Re: Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:18:32 +0200 (CEST)
"P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich_at_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