Re: Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system

Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 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
> 

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

Kris