A handful of bug reports

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

1. My ethernet connection is not working. Neither during the installation 
procedure or the isnstalled Ubuntu works with my RealTek 8139 (works fine 
with Slackware, Fedora, SuSE etc). I tried both DHCP and manual 
configuration, but  no cake. I also noticed that the kernel loads two 
modules for it, 8139too and 8130cp.  Please note that the card is recognized 
correctly, and  it is configured correctly, it just seems that the driver 
fails to  send/receive any packets (it says that it is timed out). 
Screenshots with information on the card itself and my network 
configuration, here: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8286

2. My PS/2 mouse is not working automatically. The PS2 mouse driver is 
loaded, and X was configured just fine, but no cursor is moving. I have to 
*physically* take it out  of the ps/2 port, and reconnect it there. When I 
do that, it then works, but  I have to do that each time I reboot the 
machine.

3. Trying a USB mouse instead does not work automatically. It should, as 
this is what it "usb support" means, especially for trivial things like USB 
mice.

4. Grub does not want to get installed on the / partition of Ubuntu. I have 
Ubuntu installed on /dev/hdb1 and I have Slackware's LILO on /dev/hda and I 
want to keep it that way. So, when Grub told me to install it instead on the 
/ or Ubuntu, I did so, but then Grub spat out an error saying it can't write 
there. I went back to the main ubuntu menu, selected LILO,  and LILO got 
installed on /dev/hdb1 just fine. That seems to be a Grub bug (reiserfs was 
used btw).

5. Sound is buggered. My Yamaha PCI YMF754 is fully supported by Alsa for 
years now, but after enabling sound on Gnome, and tried to play a .wav file 
from the sound pref panel it "got stuck". The sound wouldn't go away 
("dodododododo........."). I had to disable sound.

6. Select "Human" icon theme, and the trash icon from the panel is 
dissapearing (because of the svg nature of the Human trash icon?)

7. Evolution Groupware crashes on load if no email account was set  yet via 
Evolution.

8. Boot to a distro with Gnome 2.6. Add a background image on your home 
folder on that distro. Reboot to Ubuntu. Mount and load that home folder 
with Nautilus. All files show as "generic" and not even directories are 
clickable: http://www.osnews.com/img/8286/ubuntu3.png Other folders seem to 
work fine with Nautilus 2.8, it's the one that has the background, my home 
folder, that doesn't work (haven't tried to take the bg image out yet).

9. Open the "Computer" nautilus window. Drag-n-drop the devices from there, 
to your desktop. Notice that all of them carry "locks". They shouldn't have 
locks.

10. This is mostly a generic gnome problem, but it becomes an Ubuntu problem 
even more, as Ubuntu doesn't have this icon at all: creating a new "Home" 
shortcut on the desktop is a pain in the bum. Trying to drag-n-drop or 
cntrol dnd or shift dnd from nautilus to desktop, it  just tells you that 
you are not allowed to move that folder, while all I want is a darn 
shortcut....

This PC is an AthlonXP 1600+ Microtel Linux certified PC. It has  an MSI 
motherboard (MS-6390-L v1.0) which features the VIA KM266 chipset. The 
motherboard features an onboard RTL8139 network card, AC97/8233A VIA sound 
and south bridge, and also integrated you will find the fastest S3 Savage 
model to date: S3 Savage4-PRO+ 266DDR. (I don't use the onboard VIA sound 
and S3 Savage video which are both disabled in the BIOS, I use instead the 
Yamaha PCI and a GeForce2MX AGP which are better supported by Linux).

Please let me know how I could further test for you and try and fix these 
issues.

thanks,
Eugenia