(k)ubuntu: howto prevent lp module from loading at boot?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 05:08:34PM -0500, Herb Richter wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:39:06PM -0500, Herb Richter wrote:
> >>I need to prevent the lp module from automatically loading at boot up on
> >>a kubuntu *1 workstation (so that a vmware *2 guest os can access "lpt1")
> [cut]
> > 
> > Something like:
> > 
> > -----
> > /etc/modprobe.d/disablelp:
> > alias lp off
> > -----
> > 
> > That might do it.
> 
> Yes, this works well, and has been quite stable over these last few days.
> 
> ...a very elegant solution.

I tend to prefer elegant and robust over some hard to understand hack.
:)

I am surprised the lp module got in the way of something though.
Usually it shares the port quite nicely.  Maybe it is the other user of
the port that isn't sharing nicely.

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