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Printer drivers causing kernel panic

When I try to add printer, or just plug my printer in I get a kernel panic. If the printer is plugged in, it won't boot. I also get the same problem when I plug my monitor in to use as a USB hub. Plugging the cables in by themselves do not…

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@cemicolin Published 2009-05-21
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Leopard 10.5
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When I try to add printer, or just plug my printer in I get a kernel panic. If the printer is plugged in, it won't boot. I also get the same problem when I plug my monitor in to use as a USB hub. Plugging the cables in by themselves do not cause any problems.

My specs
iDeneb OS 10.5.5
Dell C521 with an AMD64 Athlon X2.
4 GB ram
8400 GS 256MB
nForce SATA controller
Broadcom 440x lan, and a Broadcom PCI wireless G
320 GB harddrive with a Windows 7, Vista and MacOSX primary partitions, as well as an extended partition with a NTFS and a FAT32 partition

I installed iDeneb 1.3 with the AMD patch, and then upgraded to Voodoo. This is a reinstall after I repartitioned my drive, and I didn't have these problems last time. I just reinstalled my system.kext which didn't help. Adding the 64bit Nforce kext didn't help either. I think the problem may be the printer driver system update, but I'm not sure whether to roll back to the AMD patch and add my printer and then go back to Voodoo to see if it works, or to find a way to roll back my printer drivers.

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