[cups.general] I've stuffed somthing up

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Nov 12 22:51 Don Gingrich wrote (shortened):
> ... SuSE 10.0 system runnning CUPS 1.1.23 ...
> ... Kernel is 2.6.13-15.12-bigsmp on a Tyan Tiger 2xAMD 2600+ ...
....
> I am begining to believe that this may not even be a CUPS problem
> since the following occurred:
> # fuser /dev/lp0
> # cat bad-times >/dev/lp0
> This resulted in a system hang-

There are some bug reports about problems with the parallel port
in our Novell/Suse Bugzilla. A good report to start is
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185135
See also the other bug reports which are mentioned there.

Something is fishy with the parallel port stuff in the kernels
since Suse Linux 10.0, see
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Nov/1206.html

The current workaround is to experiment with various BIOS settings
and explicite additional settings in /etc/modprobe.conf to find a
setup, which actually works in a particular problematic case.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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