Breezy Badger milestone release "Colony 3" now available

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:08:54PM -0400, Lukas Sabota wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > - The much-awaited USplash graphical boot feature is included; though its
> >   full functionality is not yet enabled, it displays a graphical boot
> >   screen and it is important for us to know that it works on a wide
> >   variety of hardware before proceeding.  To activate it, run the
> >   following command in a terminal after installing or upgrading:
> >
> >   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
> > 
> >
> I ran the command specified.  On my next boot, I received no information 
> about the boot process, just the Ubuntu logo and a white box where the 
> bootup output should go.

That's exactly what you're supposed to see at this point.  Congratulations,
it worked! ;-)

> Then, I changed my vga kernel setting to 791, and I just was given a black
> screen until X started.  Hmm, what's the deal there?

Only one VGA mode is supported, the one used by default.

> Mmm, quite beautiful :)  A big improvement over add/remove in hoary.  
> What programs are installable by this program?

I'm not sure I understand the question.  The programs it can install are
visible in the program itself.

> > - A new tool has been added to make it easy to add and remove support for
> >   multiple languages (System->Administration->Ubuntu Language Selector)
> >
> This is a very good start!  But, there is no way to set POSIX/C as the 
> system default.  And how well does this integrate with GDM?
> 
> Another problem I've noticed:  I cannot switch to any of my v/cs... 
> Alt-ctrl-f1 throgh f6 do nothing...
> 
> Are other people sharing my experiances?

I have seen that problem with certain keyboard layouts; please report it in
Bugzilla.

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 - mdz