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[cage47]

Alright, now I've got my Mandrake demons conquored, I've started to dive into Debian full-force. I've got mandrake 8 and Debian 2.2.30 in a tri-boot with windows 3.1 and they all are playing nicely. Now I'm trying to bring Debian up to speed with my Mandrake side. But as I suspected I hit a glitch with Word Perfect. What are the files that need to be installed to make WordPerfect 8 Personal install. And I haven't tried to set up my sound card yet but didn't I read somewhere that there is a sndconfig for Debian? If so where can I get it? Those are the main q's. I should be able to figure the rest of it out from there. TIA

[Strike]

How did you get WP 8 working in Mandrake? If there are RPMs for it, there might be debs for it. If not, you can just grab the source, compile it like so:

./configre --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

(make sure it goes into /usr/local because that's where Debian wants you to put all your self-compiled apps to avoid clashing with files from the deb packages).

And, if it's a self-installer (.bin .sh or whatever), then just make sure you stick it in /usr/local.

There is sndconfig for Debian ... sorta. It's just the RedHat program. I personally dislike it just because it won't detect everything and it does some nastiness with PnP sometimes it seems.

My advice - go to www.debian.org (http://www.debian.org) click on their "Documentation" link on the left hand side, and start reading all the intro manuals. Learning how to use apt and learning about the filesystem structure will help keep your Debian system unbroken and running smoothly.

[Droo]

Did you really just say Windows 3.1 or were you just being sarcastic?

[cage47]

Droo, I am being completely sarcastic. After fighting with Windows 95 on my AMD w/ via chipset mobo I got sick of it, dumped it and put 3.1 back on. I still had all my old progies archived so I pulled them back out. I keep the crap box for 95. Have no use for 98 or beyond.

Strike. First time I got into Linux I downloaded the WP8 personal from the corel site. But now I have the old Maximum Linux cd with it on it. It doesn't /configure,make,make install. You only need to extract the .tar.gz files then run the Runme command that is included. BUT you have to have the libc5 files installed. They come with both Mandrake 7 and 8. But I saw a post that listed these files for Debian but can't find it. It works like a charm. Just in Mandrake 8 it has to run in a terminal when it didn't in 7. Minor annoyance. P.S. Droo, I have 6.1 in my Win3.1 side and the old 5 for dos archived on my cd-rw.
But now I have another question. Is there a way/place to put the xvidtune settings to make them stick after a reboot. My 1200x800 setting is slightly off the screen to the left. Xvidtune fixes it but it goes back after reboot. (Debian again)

[cage47]

Well heck, if it's just the redhad sndconfig, could I just copy the one from my Mandrake partition? It works like a charm in Mandrake for my old SB16 isa non-pnp.

[cage47]

OK, it's too damn early for me to carry on a normal conversation. Droo, I meant to say I am being completely serious. Windows 3.1 is the only Windows I ever truly enjoyed/trusted.

[Strike]

Originally posted by cage47:
<STRONG>Strike. First time I got into Linux I downloaded the WP8 personal from the corel site. But now I have the old Maximum Linux cd with it on it. It doesn't /configure,make,make install. You only need to extract the .tar.gz files then run the Runme command that is included. BUT you have to have the libc5 files installed. They come with both Mandrake 7 and 8. But I saw a post that listed these files for Debian but can't find it. It works like a charm. Just in Mandrake 8 it has to run in a terminal when it didn't in 7. Minor annoyance.</STRONG>
Then I'd say make a directory like /usr/local/wordperfect and untar the stuff into there. Then make a few symlinks in /usr/local/bin. Debian has libc5 available in the "oldlibs" section of its packages, so that's not a problem. I don't think there would be any Debian specific files unless someone packaged it for one of the branches.

<STRONG>But now I have another question. Is there a way/place to put the xvidtune settings to make them stick after a reboot. My 1200x800 setting is slightly off the screen to the left. Xvidtune fixes it but it goes back after reboot. (Debian again)</STRONG>
As far as I can tell, just hitting "Apply" saves it permanently. I haven't had to mess with it much because I just mess with the manual settings on my monitor themselves instead.

[cage47]

I have it installed already it's just looking for the libc5 files. That's all I needed to know.

But as far as the settings, you'd think it would save but it didn't.

[bdg1983]

My 1200x800 setting is slightly off the screen to the left. Xvidtune fixes it but it goes back after reboot

I have the same problem since I installed a newer version of my distro at work. Apply seems to work until you reboot.

Using the settings on my home monitor saves the screen display for all the operating systems installed, but on one of my work pc's with a Compaq P75, if I change the monitor settings for Linux, it messes up Win98. Not at home though.

An upgrade to X4.1 should fix the problem.