Flight 5 installation and first impressions report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:26:10PM -0500, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> 2. Insert an encrypted DVD. Get "Totem is unable to play this disk. No
> reason" message. I understand the restricted format issues and if I use
> command line to run totem I actually get a more meaningful error saying
> that libdvdcss is not installed, but totem's habit of saying "No reason"
> is very unnerving.

Please file a bug; it should provide a more helpful error message.

> 4. I have a MIDI-to-USB device plugged-in and it was recognized as a
> sound card, so no sound. Had to actually go and dig around through
> forums and manually edit asound.conf to choose which device to use by
> default to play sounds.

System->Preferences->Sound presents you with a list of available sound
devices and allows you to select which one to use.  If someone would tell
the forums about this, that might help.

> 5. In both hwinfo and read-edid my monitor reports that its default
> resolution is 1280x1024, but highest possible (1920 x 1440 at 60Hz) is
> chosen. I know this was already reported, but there was a discussion
> about weather a monitor is able to tell what the default resolution
> should be. My VIEWSONIC G90fb seems to be able to, and still wrong one
> is chosen by default.

Check what xresprobe says.

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 - mdz