Flight 4 Live-CD usage report
Andreas Schildbach
andreas at schildbach.de
Sun Feb 19 16:05:42 GMT 2006
Hi everyone,
thanks for the new Flight 4! I could not resist to try it out as early
as possible (on the Dell Latitude X1).
Bootup went well; however, there were some glitches:
- immediately after selecting "Boot" in the graphical bootloader, some
green garbage appears on screen (https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28769).
- during bootup, the screen mode switches between text (about 5
seconds), then graphical usplash (about 40 seconds), then text again
(about 1 minute). I think these are just too many mode switches. If it
is not possible to avoid text mode at all during an all-successful boot
process, there should not be any graphical display at all. Usplash would
only look professional if it was the only thing you'd see.
After bootup, I noticed:
- Keyboard and Timezone were not set correctly. In prior Live-CD, I was
asked about this during bootup. Is it intentional to skip these
questions? I don't think it is a good idea, unless there is a good
chance to auto-detect both settings correctly somehow. An incorrectly
set keymap ruins the whole user experience, and searching for Gnome
Keyboard Preferences will just be too much hassle for new users.
- I tried to set the keymap using Gnome Keyboard Preferences, but the
system went mad (https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31990)
- The homedirectory of the default "ubuntu" user is owned by root rather
than ubuntu (https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31991)
- X uses the "vesa" driver, rather than "i810" or "i915" (I have an
i915GMS). It is easy to edit xorg.conf, but why isn't the correct driver
selected by default? (https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31995)
- There is no network manager yet, by default )-:
I had planned to try out espresso, but backed out because of the
problems above and the warning message that appears upon starting
espresso. I have a stable and an experimental partition on my drive - is
there a good chance that espresso will _not_ touch my stable partition
if I instruct to install on the experimental partition?
Regards,
Andreas
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