[vox-tech] Slack 10 print problem solved

[wild bill]

Thanks again to all for their time, effort and input.  
Thanks especially to Ken Bloom for persevering with finding 
the ultimate solution.  

I don't know why uncommenting the required entries in the 
rc.modprobe file did not work;  but, as Ken suggested, I 
put the modprobe parport_pc and modprobe lp where Slackware 
would find them on startup.  I chose rc.local since it is 
my hack of the problem and it seems to me to be a logical 
choice.  

Manually editing the /edit/cups/printers.conf failed to 
produce print output.  And, the parallel port choice still 
does not show in the http://localhost:631/admin Device 
screen.  However, the KDE printer setup was able to do its 
magic and produced the Cups Printer Test Page.

A document was subsequently printed from ABIWord so at last 
all is well.  

Thanks again to all.

Bill Wells