Flight 4 Live-CD usage report

[Andreas Schildbach]

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