Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed rc1 on my laptop (finally, been VERY busy lately). > > A few notes: > > 1. There are still not many 'BACK' button in drakx. This is very > frustrating for a user when he screws up.
postponed to mdk10 > 2. Draksound chose trident() as my soundcard driver, which is OSS. I > thought alsa was the default. If it's not, why is the alsa daemon run > by default? default is not set by draksound but by ldetect-lst. there's no global "let's default to OSS" or "let's default to ALSA". how each chard defautt was done ? - initially all cards defaulted to OSS - at every new alsa release, i defaulted new supported sound cards to ALSA - then, on users requests, some cards defaults were switched between OSS & ALSA (in both directions). there's not "let enforce ALSA or OSS" policy, it's more or less "let's see what works the best for end users" policy :-) anyway, since alan cox won't maintain much OSS drivers in the short term, sound card default drivers may be progressively switched from OSS to ALSA. > 3. The fonts in all the GTK2 stuff look terrible. Very choppy on > my 1024x768 LCD, which is a very common thing on laptops. The > 'real' text mode fonts look fine though. maybe can you upload a few screenshots on some site and post their urls? pablo? > 4. While the 'look' of the splash screen and lilo splash is GREAT, > the quality is HIDEOUS. Again, this is scaled to 1024x768 on an > LCD. There are crazy white lines through the nice blue background. > It looks like plaid almost. Is there no better way to scale the > images to 1024x768? we currently cannot know easily the fb resolution, 800x600 works everywhere (eg matrox support only 800x600, not 1024x768), ... so we enforece 800x600 (at least for mdk9.2)
