Hi I just got my beta 2 from liniso.de and here is my test:
System: Abit KX7 with AMD XP 2000, DeXa Wireless KB/(Wheel)Mouse
Digital (Siemens DVB-S SAA7146) and Analogue (SAA7134
Terratec Cinergy 400) TV Cards, Matrox G450 GFX, SCSI,
Firewire card (works fine with 2.4.19), Realtek Ethernet,
SB Live Emu10k1
- At the beginning "F1" pressing does not work (blank screen)
- Bad, bad: DMA and CDROM: DMA enabled by default makes trouble
with my Creative CD-RW 12/10/32 installation driver (seems to
get disabled later)
- German installation, Expert mode selected
- Individual package selection
- Lot of packages missing, probably mainly from contrib :):
cervisia (gone ?, I'd really like to see gCVS from wincvs.org,
the linux port in Mandrake), font-tools (in cooker...),
openoffice (why still in contrib ?), powertweak (gone ? why ?),
I hope the contrib software will be included both in th DL-Edition
and in the Pro-Edition.
- Splash screens do not work at all (except some flickering)
- "Details" button always keeps its label (don't remember if
this was normal)
- Printer configuration: While configuring for HP photosmart
P1000 printer the following perl error appears:
Can't locate Text/ParseWords.pm in @INC (@INC contains ...)
--> I can't configure my printer except completely manually,
ignoring Photosmart recognition.
- Unsupported HW up to now: Siemens DVB-S, Software available
from http://linuxtv.org/dvb (card recognised by lspci) _and_
my analogue TV card, drivers and patches are available from
http://bytesex.org/saa7134/
- also I miss better support for ieee1394, would be nice to
have the possibility to have eth support for it with the
network options for example (for the next cooker :)
(I didn't check, if hotplug supports firewire or if the
ohci1394 got added to /etc/modules)
Concerning the (gnome) desktop: I don't say much too it, but
I only really liked to have larger icons for higher resolutions.
The default ones are to small for 1024x768. It would be good
to adapt the icon default size to the default resolution used
by the user :)
I did not check previous tests, so forgive my duplicates :)
With best regards,
Reinhard Katzmann
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Software-Engineer, Developer for Embedded Devices
Project: Pertergrin, a role playing game system
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