printer stopped working - in 2.6.10 kernels

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

> try reconfiguring your printer port from the BIOS.  If the port is
> configured with ECP capabilities disable them, disable interrupts,
> DMA, etc..
> 
> In any case, good luck and let's hope they don't break more things
> with the next release.

For the record, adding

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto

to the end of /etc/modprobe.conf fixed the problem (as suggested at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145151).

Thanks for your suggestions, Kam!


- Mike