Comment 3 for bug 369850

I thought that the ubuntu-bugs cups program already did that.

However, here's the output requested from the Parallel Port section:

bryan@pinkroom:~$ lsmod | grep lp
lp 17156 0
parport 42220 2 ppdev,lp
bryan@pinkroom:~$ lsmod | grep ppdev
ppdev 15620 0
parport 42220 2 ppdev,lp
bryan@pinkroom:~$ dmesg | grep par
[ 0.888120] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 0.902971] pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge
[ 8.520169] PM: Resume from partition 8:5
[ 36.586436] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
bryan@pinkroom:~$ lpinfo -v
network socket
network beh
direct hal
direct hpfax
direct hp
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct scsi
serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
network smb
bryan@pinkroom:~$

When I bring up the New Printer dialog, the only devices listed are:

Serial Port #1
Other
> Network Printer

Nothing that indicates that a parallel port printer can be selected.