Array CD 6

[Viper12]

Installed array6 on a Dell Dimension 2400 with e17fp flatpanel.
Installation proceeded without error (net connection during install was
onboard nic.)

Post installation, system boots to a black screen with "video
resolution unsupported" indicated by the monitor.  ctrl-alt-f1 to
command line and then issue ctrl-alt-f7 brings up the splash screen in
12x10 rez.   Booting to desktop all is well.  Edited the xorg.conf to
remove all 12x10 size references, and reboot to get 10x7 rez for the
splash.  After reboot machine continues to use a 12x10 rez for the
splash login screen and the monitor also continues to give a 'not
supported' until the f1/f7 is cycled.  (xorg.conf seems to have gotten
the horizontal/vertical sync rates correct.)

Other:
Installed a Netgear wg311v2 wifi adapter post install for the machine's
final 'configuration', and ubuntu fails to recognize the card.  This is
the ACX111 TI chipset, and Linuxant provides driverloaders for this
card, so this will be a solution.

Other:
Rythmbox continues to display serious problems while streaming audio. 
Other applications such as gxine and xmms have no problems with the
same audio streams.  Today's update included a lot of gstreamer
updates, but this still hasn't resolved the odd chirp/pop and
occasional garbled sound reproduction of the rythmbox application.

Overall, array 6 is getting much closer, but if a distribution cannot
cleanly install on a consumer 'grade' box (dimension2400 is about as
'consumer-grade' as it gets), then the average windows user will not be
tempted to move away, as installation of something as simple as a widely
used wifi adapter becomes an excercise, and the initial boot up to the
login screen cannot be viewed without something erroring out is
inexcusable.  (in beta it is, but this won't do for "joe-user" who
wants the web, the net, and a word processor).

The above usability comments are not a slam, merely a tech's
observation on what a user would be thinking about 'smooth' when
looking over ubuntu...at this point.


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Viper12