Quality drop in the latest version?

[Darren Wheatley]

Hi Matt,

Please accept my apologies if the tone of my last email was rude. I just
re-read it and it was rather abrupt. That was not my intention.

The two builds were on the same machine. No hardware changes have been made.
The machine is a Dell Dimension 4600 P4 with an nVidia GeForce4 MX 440.

> > 1. SDL sound didn't work. (needed "export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dsp" adding to
> > .gcprofile)
>
> What is the default SDL sound driver?  It hasn't changed, so the default
> must have worked for you previously.

It did, which is why this new build is odd. Could this be a kernel problem?
I haven't made any changes other than a few apt-gets.

I installed:

supertux
tuxracer
thunderbird
java2sdk (from the Sun bin release)
Eclipse (just unzipped)

All from the universe unless otherwise stated.

> > 2. apt-get install xmms only installed some of the libraries, leaving a
> > broken xmms (needed libmikmod2 to be installed)
>
> xmms does not require libmikmod2.  This is a bug caused by the proprietary
> nvidia drivers.  You can install libmikmod2 as a workaround, but only
nVidia
> can fix the true bug.

I did an "apt-get nvidia-glx" both times from the universe, but I guess the
package could have changed between the two builds.

> > 3. ~/Documents wasn't created by the installer, so the "Home" link is
> > broken. (fixed by creating the folder)
>
> I do not think this has even been created by the installer, or otherwise.
> The "Home" menu item in the Computer menu opens your home directory, not
the
> Documents directory.

It tries to open the Documents folder on my machine. That is straight after
the build and a few apt-gets. I'll check again tomorrow just to be sure.
BTW, this was from a link that I added to the panel, rather from the
Application menu.

> > 4. Font installation through drag-and-dropping to the "fonts:///" folder
> > doesn't work. (I had to apt-get install the core ms fonts package).
>
> It has worked for others; perhaps you can provide more detail.

Nothing happens when I drag and drop the files. Refreshing the view shows no
change.

Any help I can give would be fine. Just let me know. If you need me to
install the old version of Ubuntu I still have the ISO.

Regards

Darren.