I am running a nearly Mandrake 8.0 beta system (kernel-2.4.2, XFree86-4.0.2, glibc2.2) with kde 2.1, qt-2.3.0, cups-1.1.6-14mdk, kups-1.1-4mdk and qtcups-2.1-7mdk. My problem is that I can run kups as root and printout a test page just fine. If I try to run kups as a user and select my one and only printer (Epson Stylus Color 600), then my system bogs way down and kups essentially freezes. If I open up kpm, it indicates that kups is using 99% of my CPU. If I try to print from any kde app it fails. There is no error message, just prolonged HDD activity and the app freezes up until I open up kpm and kill "lpr -dlp" which is using 99% of the CPU. If I print from the CLI using "lpr <some postscript file>" I have no problem printing. What is up with cups and/or kups? How do I fix this?
