Gary....so do you really need Star Office? I ask because
whatever anomaly is causing this is getting you down and maybe
a compromise is the best way out.
Wasn't recofiguring X enough to fix things. Did you look for
damage to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file? Possibly backing this
file up before installing and restoring it when problems
occur?
I knew that the solutions I suggest are not remedies, but
patches and work-a-rounds. sorry I can't be a better help.
Alan
P.S. I bought my first computer in 1978, it was a TRS-80 Model
I with 4 K of ram and a cassette deck to load programs and
save data. This was way before my first wordprocessor,
Electric Pencil. :-)
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> >Gary....what does "reload Linux" mean exactly?
> After each problem with WordPerfect and StarOffice I did a total
> reinstall: partition, format, the works.
>
> >Install of what, gave an '"install failed" at about 80% complete'?
> Sorry for summarizing to the point of loss-- Word Perfect (except where
> previously noted) was in place, and the Star Office install stopped with an
> "install failed" message at about 80% complete. Trying to reboot showed that
> the damage had already been done, again.
>
> >Also, why is it so important to have Wordperfect in addition to Star Office
> (or visa >versa)?
> I'm used to Word Perfect (and have a book about half-done with it) and I
> like it. I would also like to have a spread-sheet program under Linux. I'm
> dual-booting for now, but I'm so fed up with Win98 error messages, BSODs,
> etc. that I can't wait to be done with it, and a spread-sheet program in
> Linux is one less reason to have to continue with Windows. I've never liked
> Microsoft's operating systems: I used DRDOS and Novell DOS when there was
> still a choice. I looked seriously at Unix, but couldn't afford it sometime
> shortly after the founding of the Free Software Foundation, well before the
> Linux kernel was born. Maybe some of you should put me out to pasture: I
> learned wordprocessing with WordStar 2.2 on an Osborne tan case under CP/M.
> I hex patched printer driver strings when I didn't know if that was supposed
> to be a zero or letter O. You knew I had to be some kind of crazy to install
> Linux so many times, didn't you? Seems crazy to me. And I know my wife
> thinks all of this is crazy; I think she's thankful it's this and not sports.
> -Gary-
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > I've registered my copy of Word Perfect, and with my video properly
> > configured again tried to install Star Office when Word Perfect was already
> > in place, and it still corrupts Xwindows to the extent that I have to reload
> > Linux to fix it. Summarizing many installs of Linux and WP/SO: 1) generic
> > video or fully configured makes no difference, 2) whether Word Perfect has
> > had its registration number entered or not makes no difference, 3) hdparm
> > either default or c3d1, and desktop configuration makes no difference, 4)
> > whether other RPMs have been installed or not makes no difference, and 5)
> the
> > order of WP and SO makes no difference. The last couple of times I've
> gotten
> > "install failed" at about 80% complete, which I had not gotten earlier, and
> I
> > don't know what is responsible for that change. In all cases, everything
> > seems fine until a reboot. I can't think of anything that might be
> > responsible for this failure to get both WP and SO installed. I've spent a
> > couple of weeks going through the various permutations, and the only
> > conclusion I can come to is that this just isn't going to work for me,
> though
> > I was encouraged and gladdened by others of you successfully installing them
> > both. Thank you all for your assistance and your suggestions. -Gary-
