Colony CD 2

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> This could very well be 
>   https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12276
> 
> In the meantime, try
> 
>  sudo apt-get install libesd0
> 
> Martin

Thanks Martin, that worked ! Gnome now works properly, I can use it :o)

I can now start testing it, but boy I saw so many bugs, I don't know
where to start... Breezy testing is a full time job !! ;o)

But we have 3 months left to fix everything... hopefully it will be
enough :-)

Despite all the problems I noticed after a couple hours of basic
testing,  I can nonetheless see some good points already :

1) SCSI scanner at long last works perfectly out of the box
2) menu editing implemented, withOUT overloading the menus (no new
entry, just right click on it, as before). Needs more features and some
UI polishing, but it's there :o)
3) TV and USB hotplug now work (well almost), at the SAME time.
Presently, I have to boot Hoary with the Warty kernel, when I want to
watch TV... and reboot to select the Hoary kernel, when I want USB
hotplug... :-/ Thank God I watch TV a lot more often than I hot plug a
USB device, so I can default to the Warty kernel in practice.
4) Apps seems to start significantly faster than before. I don't know
why, but I am glad. Starting a terminal or Gedit, no longer takes 3
seconds ! Gnumeric and Abiword, which used to be super super fast to
load, are now lightening fast, as if it were vi or something ! :-O :o))
I am sure this isn't placebo effect, as the change was really
significant. I don't know what got changed to achieve this, but I sure
enjoy the end result !!! :-)
5) SCSI CD writer : couldn't test.... I burnt my last blank CD for the
Colony #2 ISO ! :-/  Will have to wait until I can afford new CD's.....

Some bad points :

1) Parallel port printer is not auto-detected anymore (HP LaserJet 6P),
but works fine if I select the model by hand in the list.

2) USB : when I plug my FMC reader, it creates 4 icons (it has 4 slots),
eventhough only one of the slots actually contains a memory card (from a
digital camera), and it refuses to mount the memory card, complaining
that there is something missing in fstab IIRC.

3) Sound preview in Nautilus, is now completely useless. 'Sox' doesn't
help, nothing works anymore now. No WAV, no OGG, no MP3, nothing. :-/

4) CD player keeps hanging, or at best, won't play anything...

5) lots of other minor things, will start filing bugs when I feel
brave ! ;o)


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Vince