the module called lp?

[Jacob Schmude]

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Hi
Lp is the parallel port printer module. It's loaded at boot because it's
not possible to detect when hardware is attached to the parallel port.
You can remove this line unless your machine has such a port, and I've
not yet seen any netbook that does.
Come to think of it, while it's not possible to detect when hardware is
connected to the lpt port, it is certainly possible to detect whether
the system has one. Why then load such a driver without at least
detecting if the port exists? Strange.



On 04/15/2010 11:15 AM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> Thinking that speakup may be contributing to my  poor  speech 
> performance in this new netbook,  I turned the speechdup service off.  I 
> know that there is a module that must also be loaded in order for 
> speakup to work.  In /etc/modules, I have two uncommented lines reading 
> "lp", without the quotes.  Is this the speakup module?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 

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