Issue report for Breezy latest

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:25:42PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> As the final Breezy release is approaching, and a release candidate 
> seems to be available (I could not find it but there are already 
> reports), I'd like to post a summary of issues still open on my Dell 
> Latitude X1 Subnotebook.

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> The most critical issue: Certain function keys lock up Gnome (from the 
> user's perspective - I know that it is just getting endless key 
> repeats). I would not release Breezy without fixing this.
> The side effect of this issue is that I have not had the opportunity to 
> test if these three keys actually do what they should, if the keys would 
> internally processed correctly.
> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14446)

We may be able to fix this for final, but considering that it has had so
little testing, it's pretty unlikely.  Of course, the odds would be better
if a bunch of folks tested the patch.

> None of the memory card slots work well:
> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14495)

A complex issue that will require further analysis and probably intrusive
changes to fix.  It will have to wait until after 5.10.

> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14081)

We can't support onboard SD hardware due to a lack of driver
support/documentation from the manufacturer.

> Bluetooth PIN authentication does not work out-of-the-box: I have to 
> manually edit hcid.conf and change pin_helper to /usr/bin/bluepin;
> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15711)

This seems to work for others, and the bug is waiting for more information
from you.

> There are two issues with wrong X resolution and refresh rates:
> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14081)

This is the SD slot bug you already mentioned.

> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2827)

Nothing we can do about this in the near term.

> The installer will not warn if the swap space is too small to Hibernate:
> (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15189)

This is only an issue for certain custom installations; by default the
installer allocates enough space.

> I was not able to resize (make smaller) the partition of my Hoary 
> installation in the installer.
> (no bugzilla entry yet)

Please file a bug, but unless the fix is obvious and safe, this won't make
it for 5.10.

> The clearlooks theme had all round corners on Hoary. On Breezy, only the 
> upper two corners are round, the lower two are rectangular. Is it 
> intended? In my opinion the combination round/rectangular looks very 
> ugly, so I feel this is a regression to Hoary. I know that I can install 
> additional themes, but in Hoary it worked out-of-the-box.
> (no bugzilla entry yet)

I don't see this in the default theme.  At any rate, it's cosmetic and won't
block the release.

> When shutting down the system, one of the first shutdown messages 
> complains about GDM not running. This feels wrong - it least it was 
> running a second before. It does no harm, but I would prefer this 
> message to be hidden from the user.
> (no bugzilla entry yet)

Cosmetic.

> There is no way to use the built-in modem.
> (no bugzilla entry yet)

There probably is; there are already bugs open about the various laptop
modems that we can't currently support.

-- 
 - mdz