Please tell me which printer and which driver you use. Send me /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd and tell me whether your printer is connected via USB or via the parallel port. Till Ian McLeod wrote: > > When I go to print from many applications - my computer completely freezes - it >appears that CUPS / LP (?) often take up an enourmous slice of CPU time and stay >there - meanwhile the hard drive is going wild and nothing gets printed. I >eventually have to either wait a few minutes while a virtual console comes up so I >can kill the offending process or just reboot the computer (urgh! Is this >return-of-the-killer-windows or something?). > > It happens for some games also - such as 'space cup' that comes with Mandrake 7.2 - >the computer just freezes. > > I am running a 128Mb PIII 450 IDE HD with a Diamond Viper 550 16mb graphics card. >
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