Well I will break the questions up some here: 1. Is winmodem technology supported in any way? Actually, the answer is yes.As a starting point check out: www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linmodem-HOWTO.html 2. The iostream.h header file nad it substitute. Sorry can't help you on that one. 3. Where can you get a dos emulator? Most distributions include dosemu. This is not really an emulator though. In reality it will either use a DOS partition, or file setup to act like a dos partition. It then actually boots DOS in a virtual machine. Check out the howto pages for more info. 4. How do you install the support for the 2 hpt366 controllers? Can't help. But waht are they anyway? That might help with an answer. 5. Is it possible/how is it possible to make lilo speak? If you have an external synth, it is possible to redirect lilo's output to the appropriate com port. Otherwise you are out of luck. Can't say how that is done though. 6. Are there any screen savers that will turn your monitor off while at the prompt and the login screen? Actually, the behavior will be the same here. By default with no interferance your screen will go blank after some amount of inactivity. Outside of knowing that this can be changed, I don't know how to control the time. Pressing any key will bring it back. I have never had it actually turn off my monitor. I don't know if that can be done or how. I just have not made it a priority. 7. (bonus question) How can you play midi files? A search of Freshmeat.net turned up this promising program: midi. It will play midi files on OSS supported sound cards. Since the ALSA project includes OSS you should be set. As a general note, the two sites I find invaluable are freshmeat.net and linuxdoc.org. The first has every imaginable software available. If you can't find it there, it probably is not far from the drawing table. The second site has all the answers. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Cluelessness There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
