a ton of questions

[Gregory Nowak]

The hpt366 controlers are especially designed to support ata166 capible hard
drives.


----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
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:
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> 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
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> 2.  The iostream.h header file nad it substitute.
> Sorry can't help you on that one.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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> Cluelessness
> There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of
> inquisitive idiots
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