Installation report: Ubuntu desktop Alpha 3 amd64 - my turn

[Adilson Oliveira]

Hello.

I also would like to report my installation that took place this saturday.
I started with a clean installation in my G1 notebook a Intel Core Duo
with a go7700 nvidia video card.
The installation itself went on fine with a few small issues related
with the chosen language: pt_BR.
1) Despite selected during the first screen, when I started the
installation proper, ubiquity had Portuguese selected and not Brazilian
Portuguese.
2) The default keyboard was set as USA instead of Brasil as it should.
Apart for those small issues, everything else during the installation
itself went fine. Those are regressions, using Hardy the language and
keyboard selection works as expected.
After the first boot my nvidia card was correctly detected and I was
given the chance to install 3 different versions of the same proprietary
driver. I'm not sure this is the way it should be. Is there any reason
for that? Anyway, I selected the latest one and it was installed but the
download bar didn't update during the process, staying at 0% the whole
time which made me wonder for a minute if it was really downloading and
installing the driver.
After that I started to customize my desktop.
I use thunderbird but it was crashing horribly. Today's update solved
the issue.
Next one was sound. There's a known bug that makes pulseaudio select the
internal speaker as the default sink. Kill it and sound via alsa works
fine. After some research, I found this thread here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=866965 with a solution.
During my normal use today I also found the following problems:
1) When installing a plugin in firefox, the "install aditional program"
dialog stays on the front so one has to push the instalation dialog to
the front to close it after the plugin is installed.
2) Compiz wasn't enabled by default. I had to enable it manually but
even so it does not remain enabled during reboots.
3) I see some glitches in the windows bars with compiz enabled. It may
disappear or have the buttons shifted a bit to the left when selected.
4) If I select subpixel rendering (LCD) for the fonts with anything but
the full contour (sorry, I don't know if the is the right name) the
change fails.
So far that's what I found. I'll now check if there are bugs for those
on LP.

[]s

Adilson.