As for Fedora, I found a mirror for up2date that made things MUCH faster. Downloads are now as fast as my cable modem allows, which was around 375kB/s last night. The mirrors seem quite picky though. They work, then don't, then do again. I did get sound working... in FreeDOS. All it took was a SET BLASTER= blah blah blah in the autoexec.bat, and now Quake (and Ultimate Doom) rocks the room. MS does ship a DOS CD-ROM driver, so I'll try to use that to speed up CD access in DOS, but of course, none is shipped for Fedora, so it looks like I'll have to live with slow access there, but at least it works, and I don't use it much anyway. Hmmm, perhaps I'll just share a networked CD drive. Since my monitor at home is an LCD panel of 1280x1024, I gave that a try in Fedora. What a mistake. It would not display full screen, and stretched the display so that the window would only show the left half of the virtual screen, even with scrolling. The image was colored strangely so much that I tried to edit configuration files to change the setting back. So I'm stuck at 1028x768, which will likely be OK. I think sound will be my next tweak-a-thon. Chris Schumann _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list