> And, related to this, what is the 'approved' way to prevent the loading 
> of a driver at boot time (f.ex. lpt0 as above), and more specifically, 
> to unload it at runtime if possible. I have not yet looked into the 

Hmm, did 1.6.1 include userconf?  If the kernel has it, you can type
boot -c
in the bootloader, and at the configuration prompt type
disable lpt
and then exit to continue the boot.

I don't know of a way to unload a configured driver after boot,
but there may be things I don't know.

-Chap