hello i followed a tutorial on remastering the knoppix cd from http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13867 It was not too bad almost like updating a linux install except for these steps. I installed a new ardour build .deb package and dssi-vst and wine i can trigger and hear crystal.dll and the new ardour starts up. only problem is that on my ccrma the rosegarden could use the dssi-vst but on the musix i can't get rosegarden to see the dssi-vst. I guess i have to investigate more. but i had to use the same steps i used to get vst working on ccrma. i used this package for ardour http://gorfou.fr/site/CVS-Build-for-Ardour-debian.html then i apt-get install wine to install wine then i used this package for dssi-vst http://willem.engen.nl/debian/dists/sarge/dssi/binary-i386/dssi0.9-plugin-vs... wget http://willem.engen.nl/debian/dists/sarge/dssi/binary-i386/dssi0.9-plugin-vs... change to the folder it downloaded to and dpkg -i dssi0.9-plugin-vst_0.3.1-2_i386.deb or i used kpackage to find the download and installed it thru kpackage. after you install wine and dssi-vst it needs looks for vst dll in certain folders one of which is a folder called vst in the root home directory. like /home/root/vst if your dlls are in another folder you have to set a VST_PATH for it export VST_PATH=/path/to/folder/of/vsti/dlls then you have to run updatedb then run locate dssi-vst-scanner you will have to run this scanner with full path from the command prompt /full/path/to/dssi-vst-scanner what happens next is it uses wine to initialize the vst dll in the VST_PATH that it finds. you might get a wine popup about it being experimental or something. after it finishes scanning you start qjackctrl then at the prompt run vsthost "Crystal.dll" (p.s. crystall.dll is a free synth vsti that seems to be the one to test vst capability with on other linux vst pages) you will see maybe a wine window popup then if all goes well the gui of crystall pops up now you will see the audio and midi connection in qjackctrl for crystal i start the virtual midi keyboard and connect it to crystal in qjackctrl, make sure my volumes in alsamixer is unmuted and turned up and trigger crystall via the virtual midi keyboard. if all goes well you will hear sound and vst is working. to run other vst do vsthost "vstname.dll" and this makes it run as a jack client i have tried alot of free ones with success like voxengo, kjerhaus, blockfish plugs check www.kvr-vst.com for all things vst now rosegarden is a dssi reader so it can read dss-vst but on this remaster i did it didn't show up in rosegarden like it did on my ccrma install. like vst will show up alongside all the ladspa plugins too. anyway i guess i have to tweak some things. also the whole thing with the demudi not having echo alsa drivers is a pain and i have to figure that out. i found a tut on the knoppix forum about custom kernels so that might could be how to have the cd boot to the multimedia kernels with soundcard support and the patches in the kernel for audio work. and to tell you how good dssi-vst works, on my ccrma install i got guitar rig working and played it with very low buffers almost realtime and sounded awesome. i think lots of native instruments vst work. main thing is the wine version i think. well i'm off. anyquestions just post here. by the way you should be able to do the above upgrades while booted off livecd or definitely on a harddrive install.