The hpt366 controlers are especially designed to support ata166 capible hard drives. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 2:16 PM Subject: Re: a ton of questions > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
