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)


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