Installation report: Ubuntu desktop Alpha 3 amd64 - my turn

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:22:17PM -0300, Adilson Oliveira wrote:
> 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.

You mean that the messages in Ubiquity itself were in pt_PT rather than
pt_BR?  But you selected pt_BR?

> 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.

Please file a bug on
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+filebug

> 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?

It should select the appropriate version of the driver for you.

Please file a bug on
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+filebug

> 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.

That's odd.  I'm not sure which component is working here, probably either
jockey or synaptic.

> 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.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242966 is the authoritative bug report.  I
don't know how accurate the information in that thread is, but it involves
creating files which will persist long after the bug is gone, so it's
probably not a good idea.  Probably someone from the audio team should
review it.

> 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.

I saw this as well.  Please file at
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/+filebug

> 2) Compiz wasn't enabled by default. I had to enable it manually but
> even so it does not remain enabled during reboots.

By default, you were using the open source driver, so it wouldn't be
enabled.  It should stay enabled once you turn it on, though.

https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+filebug

> 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.

Probably a bug in the proprietary nvidia driver, not much to be done here
but you can file a bug.

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 - mdz