Release8 reportinstallation

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

On 2004-09-09 18:53 +0200, VETSEL Patrice wrote:
> POINT 9 : viewing videos with totem is not a pleasure.Gstreamer need
> more works to be ok. Please consider install vlc instead !!!

After this comment I tried to play some videos for myself and was
barely shocked. So far _none_ of my mpeg, avi, or other movies worked
with this thing!

I have never tried this out in Warty, so far I only used mplayer,
which IMHO is really the only sane choice if you want to get a video
player that "just works." Xine is not bad, too, but how can it be that
this totem thingy refuses to play even the simplest MPEG-2 movie?

> I plug my usb dongle.Nothing. I launch device manager, he is frozen.

Ugh, that's bad. From your next sentence I assume that it did not get
mounted automatically?

> When user unplug by hands, pumount remove the entry on filesystem and
> the icon go away. 

We are currently working to make this safer.

> If the user take care of his datas, he right click on
> the icon to remove/eject and after he can remove the device. 

This is actually choice 5 of the proposals on the Sounder list. I
doubt that we will manage to implement that in time, but please prove
me wrong! If this isn't finished, we will maybe fall back to the GNOME
standard of having an icon appear on the Desktop.

> POINT 19 : As i'm not too bad i create a login for my friend. I see that
> by default a new user don't have the same groups like me
> (adm/audio/cdrom/dialout/floppy[I don't have
> floppy]/lpadmin/plugdev/video) may be this can be changed ?!

If your user is not in group plugdev, then automatic mounting of USB
devices will not happen. That's a purpose of this group.

> POINT 22 : after my reboot i had no sound because the alsa mixer/pcm are
> muted.

This already was discussed to death. Because there are people who
don't hear anything below 50% of the mixer and there are other people
which would be accused for breaking windows and eardrums if they set
their mixer to 30% (whatever they connected their computers to...), it
was decided to leave this at 0. This also minimizes the annoyance if
you are working in a public environment.

Thanks for your report!

Martin

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Martin Pitt                 Debian GNU/Linux Developer
martin at piware.de                      mpitt at debian.org
http://www.piware.de             http://www.debian.org
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