Breezy Badger milestone release "Colony 3" now available

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:46:10PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I did some more testing (correcting xorg.conf by hand) and found some 
> more problems with the Live CD on my Dell Latitude X1:
> 
> 1) In the Debian installer, I select German keyboard layout, which works 
> as expected in the text mode console. However, after starting X every 
> program has got U.S. layout, which was also selected in the keyboard 
> prefs. Switching therer to German did not help, still y and z are 
> exchanged for example.

Please file a bug in Bugzilla.

- Package: xserver-xorg
- Attach /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/base-config-pkgsel.log and
  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

> 2) > - Bluetooth input devices should work out of the box
> 
> I tried both a headset and my Nokia 6630, but no pairing dialog showed 
> up, and there is no Bluetooth prefs anywhere in the menu. Is there some 
> special package needed? Are "input devices" limited to keyboards and mice?

Correct.

> 4) > - Special keys on laptops should work out of the box in more cases
> 
> A lot of special purpose keys do now work out-of-the-box, but some do 
> nothing: Fn-Standby(Esc), Fn-Sleep(F1), Fn-Battery(F3), 
> Fn-Scroll-Lock(F5) and Fn-Eject-CD(F10). The Eject hotkey might be 
> blocked because of the Live CD which may not be removed.

The configuration for these keys is specific to particular laptop models, so
we only have information about laptop models that we have ourselves, or
which has been contributed by users like you.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopKeycodes

You are also invited to participate in the rest of the laptop testing
program:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTesting

> 5) Closing the Lid does not have any effect. Actually, I prefer this 
> behaviour to the usual Go-To-Standby-Behaviour, but is it really expected?

Yes.

> 6) Is it possible to enable the new Splash/Boot-Screen on the Live CD?

No.

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 - mdz