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

[Matt Galvin]

On Apr 5, 2005 9:50 PM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

Will do!

> > 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.

OK, like baza said, not a show stopper.

As a side note it works with Fedora Core 3 if that helps at all.

> > 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.

Will try this tomorrow.

> > * 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?

volume

> > * 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.

It's a fresh install from the Hoary RC. I will play with it tomorrow.

Thanks,

Matt G

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