RedHat 6.1, as it ships (verified with both the Professional installation I did, as well as with the $3 copy I got at Comdex), has broken printing. We had to add the following line to /etc/conf.modules on every computer we had in the shop (all more or less standard x86 boxes with LPT ports set to SPP, EPP, or ECP on 0x378/IRQ7): alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc A quick search of deja.com will reveal this is a problem faced by many RedHat users, but a search of the knowledgebase does not turn up this fix. Could you please look into this, and post it as an errata or whatever is RedHat's policy for dealing with such things? Thanks! Chris Harshman charshman
Agreed that this is very annoying and should be put on the Knowledge Base ASAP. I wasted an hour on this one before finding it on deja.com, and this was apparently submitted early in December.
This was a bug in the installer - it should have added the line to conf.modules in the first place. It has been listed on the "gotchas" page since the problem was discovered a couple of days after the 6.1 release. 6.2 (beta3, as released today) doesn't have the problem.