3 days from the release, 3 machines, a few issues.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:34:34PM -0400, Matt Galvin wrote:

> All machines:
> 
> * mplayer, mplayer-plugin, and vlc do not play any sound whatsoever.
> 
> * mozilla-flashplugin plays no sound and is does not seem to totally work
>     ** a screenshot of http://www.macromedia.com/ where the menu has no
>         menu entries, the text does not show up, not sure if this is a
> firefox or
>         flashplayer issue
>         *** http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.com/images/brokenflashscreenshot.png
> 
> * firefox crashes sometimes when viewing a page where mplayerplugin is running.
> 
> * firefox freaks out sometimes when mplayer plugin is running and I
> try to close the window
>     ** http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.com/images/mplayerplugin-freakinout.png
> 
> * gmplayer crashes
>     ** http://www.simplifiedcomplexity.com/images/gmplayercrash.png
>     ** kill didn't work had to kill -9 it

This is all unsupported software from universe/multiverse, so it isn't
relevant to the release.  Feel free to file bugs in Malone though.

> 2nd No name machine
> 
> * I am still affected by this bug:
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7439

This bug seems very specific to your hardware; I'm afraid there isn't time
to do much about it for the 5.04 release.

> 3rd machine with an AMD 1GHz TBird, 512MB RAM, ATI All-In-Wonder Rage
> 128 pro using the oss ati driver, SB Live!:
> 
> * Screensaver comes on fine, when unlocking the screen the mouse
> pointer it flat black. Performing a few operations turns it white
> again but it is all pixelated. The mouse pointer does not return to
> normal until after a reboot/restart of X.

You may need to disable the hardware cursor on this card; the wiki has some
information on this I believe.

> * The install picks the wrong sound device, it picks the on board
> sound(Cirrus Logic CS4297) and it should pick the SoundBlaster Live!

The system has no way of knowing which one you want.  If you aren't using
the onboard sound, disable it in the BIOS, and your PCI card will be used
by default.

> * When playing sound from the onboard sound it comes out really low.

Low volume, or low pitch?

> * I manually selected the SB card and the sound is working better now.
> But the PCM still gets turned down really low every time I reboot it.

If this is an upgrade from an earlier Hoary snapshot, run "sudo
dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base" and ensure that it is set to "always autosave".
This way your mixer settings will be saved at shutdown and restored at
startup.  This is the default now, but there was a bug some time ago in
Hoary which used a different default.

-- 
 - mdz