Installation report: Ubuntu desktop Alpha 3 amd64 - my turn

[Adilson Oliveira]

Matt Zimmerman escreveu:
> 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?

Yes, Ubiquity started in pt_PT rather than pt_BR and after I selected
pt_BR all went well.

>> 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.

Indeed. It was "a" solution I didn't imply "the" solution  ;)

[]s

Adilson.