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I installed FinalDraft with Wine. Starts fine but is unable to find it's CD and therefor only works in demo mode.
I mounted the CDROM in the dosdevices directory, but still no luck.
Here's my Wine Config. any ideas would be much apreciated, as there is NO professional screenwriting software available for Linux!!!
Thanks!
WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config
;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config for a
;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with
;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.'
[Version]
; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,win20,win30,win31)
;"Windows" = "win98"
; DOS version to imitate
;"DOS" = "6.22"
; Be careful here, wrong DllOverrides settings have the potential
; to pretty much kill your setup.
[DllOverrides]
; some dlls you may want to change
"oleaut32" = "builtin, native"
"ole32" = "builtin, native"
"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
"shell32" = "builtin, native"
"shfolder" = "builtin, native"
"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
"shdocvw" = "builtin, native"
"advapi32" = "builtin, native"
"msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
"d3drm" = "native, builtin"
"d3dxof" = "native, builtin"
"dpnhpast" = "native, builtin"
; you can specify applications too
; this one will apply for all notepad.exe
;"*notepad.exe" = "native, builtin"
; this one will apply only for a particular file
;"C:\\windows\\regedit.exe" = "native, builtin"
; default for all other dlls
"*" = "builtin, native"
[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
;"Desktop" = "640x480"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
"UseDGA" = "Y"
; Use XVidMode extension if present
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
; Use XRandR extension if present
"UseXRandR" = "Y"
; Use the take focus protocol
"UseTakeFocus" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "N"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"
; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems)
;;"Synchronous" = "Y"
;
; Use the Render extension to render client side fonts (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideWithRender" = "Y"
; Fallback on X core requests to render client side fonts (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideWithCore" = "Y"
; Set both of the previous two to "N" in order to force X11 server side fonts
;
; Anti-alias fonts if using the Render extension (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender" = "Y"
; Anti-alias fonts if using core requests fallback (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore" = "Y"
;
[fonts]
;Read the Fonts topic in the Wine User Guide before adding aliases
;See a couple of examples for russian users below
"Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
"DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"
"DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
; the TrueType font dirs you want to make accessible to wine
[FontDirs]
;"dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
;"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
;"dir3" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT"
;"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/TT"
[ppdev]
;; key: io-base of the emulated port
;; value : parport-device{,timeout}
;; timeout for auto closing an open device ( not yet implemented)
;"378" = "/dev/parport0"
;"278" = "/dev/parport1"
;"3bc" = "/dev/parport2"
[registry]
;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Where to find the global registries
;"GlobalRegistryDir" = "/etc";
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; "PeriodicSave" = "600"
; Save only modified keys
"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"
; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files
[afmdirs]
"1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
"2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
"3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
"4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
[WinMM]
; Uncomment the "Drivers" line matching your sound setting.
"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv" ; default for most common configurations
;"Drivers" = "winearts.drv" ; for KDE
;"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv" ; for ALSA users
;"Drivers" = "winejack.drv" ; for Jack sound server
;"Drivers" = "winenas.drv" ; for NAS sound system
;"Drivers" = "wineaudioio.drv" ; for Solaris machines
;"Drivers" = "" ; to disable sound
"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"
[dsound]
;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to mix in new buffers.
;"HELmargin" = "5"
;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to queue to driver.
;"HELqueue" = "5"
;; Max number of fragments to prebuffer
;"SndQueueMax" = "28"
;; Min number of fragments to prebuffer
;"SndQueueMin" = "12"
;; Forces emulation mode (using wave api)
;"HardwareAcceleration" = "Emulation"
;; Sets default playback device (0 - number of devices - 1)
;"DefaultPlayback" = "0" ; use first device (/dev/dsp)
;"DefaultPlayback" = "1" ; use second device (/dev/dsp1)
;"DefaultPlayback" = "2" ; use third device (/dev/dsp2)
;; Sets default capture device (0 - number of devices - 1)
;"DefaultCapture" = "0" ; use first device (/dev/dsp)
;"DefaultCapture" = "1" ; use second device (/dev/dsp1)
;"DefaultCapture" = "2" ; use third device (/dev/dsp2)
[Network]
;; Use the DNS (Unix) host name always as NetBIOS "ComputerName" (boolean, default "Y").
;; Set to N if you need a persistent NetBIOS ComputerName that possibly differs
;; from the Unix host name. You'll need to set ComputerName in
;; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName, too.
;"UseDnsComputerName" = "N"
;; sample AppDefaults entries
; 3 InstallShield versions who like to put their full screen window in front,
; without any chance to switch to another X11 application.
; So just catch them in a desktop window.
Use TeX (and LaTeX its, in my opinion, superior brother), it's by far the best typesetting program (it's actually a language, I've never used/seen a GUI for it, but there might be some on google) I looked for you, this is the first match: http://white.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/
No clue how good it is, I'm sure there are dozens more (Literally almost every math book is written in TeX, along with thousands and tens of thousands of non-math books are typeset in it).
The language is very very low-key to begin with, you'll get the hang of it in a few hours easily.
As for your issue, look at man wine, and in the winedebug section, you'll note how to enable it. Check what the error is, and if you don't like TeX, post it up and we'll try to help
What do you mean by no GUI? You mean you guys write sciencebooks in the terminal window???
Uhm, thanks but that sounds like "you need a typewriter? Go to the hardwarestore and buy some nuts & bolts....it's really easy to build one yourself!"
I've written everything from articles to stories, to my math homework in TeX.
Once you get used to it, it beats any GUI. I can just type out the TeX code as I solve my homework, no more need for paper, couldn't do that with a GUI. Between clicking all over I'd forget what I was doing.
I'm sure there are GUIs for it though I wouldn't bother with them.
TeX is a programming language for all intensive purposes, and I usually use emacs not an xterm
If you're planning to include access to a CD-ROM drive in your Wine configuration on Linux, then make sure to add the "unhide" mount option to the CD-ROM file system entry in /etc/fstab, e.g.:
Several Windows program setup CD-ROMs or other CD-ROMs chose to do such braindamaged things as marking very important setup helper files on the CD-ROM as "hidden". That's no problem on Windows, since the Windows CD-ROM driver by default displays even files that are supposed to be "hidden". But on Linux, which chose to hide "hidden" files on CD by default, this is FATAL! (the programs will simply abort with an "installation file not found" or similar error) Thus you should never forget to add this setting.
If you read further down in the users guide it tells you how to link the cdrom in the ~/.wine/dosdevices directory. Suppose you mount your cdrom at /mnt/cdrom and that the physical device is /dev/hdc, this is what you would need to do.
cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
ln -s /mnt/cdrom d:
ln -s /dev/hdc d::
You might also try adding the drive to the path in the wine config file.
"Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;d:\\"
Uh...just realized that I'm actually not sure what my cdroms "Physical drive" is...lol
In dev I have no other hd* listed, but I do have: cdrom, cdwrite & sbpcd (which I read could be the cdrom running under SCSI emulation?)
So, maybe I mounted the wrong device in wine?
Hell, I know this is going to be moved to the noob sector soon, but anyone can tell me how to list my physical devices so that I know what is what?
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