> I found the login screen at F7. This is not right. Why?
2014-03-07 20:19 GMT+04:00 Rolf Pedersen <[email protected]>: > This was an unsatisfactory experience, for me. All I can do is list a > number of observations and provide more info or bug report(s), if someone > will specify. > The md5sum of the iso was verified with md5sum -c and the dd to usb key > was verified against the known good iso with writecd -cmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 rolf audio 1562378240 Mar 4 05:55 > OpenMandrivaLx-2014.0-alpha2.x86_64.iso > > *Cosmetic: The first wait screen after choosing the default Install menu > item is larger than my monitor; the second wait screen, after making the > initial settings for keyboard, etc. is smaller than my monitor: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1286780/openmandriva/ > images/2014-splash.v01.JPG Eventually, the login screen fits and is > beautiful. > > *Date, Clock & Time Zone Settings incorrectly lists the local time as UTC > and UTC time as local. I select the correct local time, i.e. 4:30, which > is how I set my BIOS and which is associated with "Machine set to UTC", the > BIOS clock is set to UTC. I have never seen this before. > > *After about 20 minutes waiting at the wait screen before installation > begins, I go to tty and find the Partitioning step at F7. This is > unacceptable, if it happens in other instances. > > *I did not see the "Clean /tmp at boot" option. Can this be available? > > *At first boot of the installation, the wait screen resolution is too > large|too small before|after the first time settings. > > *After watching the 'wait' spinner for about 7 minutes, I found the login > screen at F7. This is not right. > > *Logged in, I needed to open drakclock to set the time back to local. I > enabled NTP and chose North America, United States for the server pool. > There was about 2 minutes of unresponsiveness in drakclock and, when I > looked, NTP was disabled. > > *I didn't look for an install log in /root/drakx until after the first > login but I don't see any such. > > *There was no sound for system notifications or using play on CLI. I have > onboard sound, hdmi sound, and a Xonar sound card. In pavucontrol, system > sounds was at 0, so I raised it. The Xonar uses snd_virtuoso and that is > loaded. Typically, in pavucontrol, I will turn off the other two adapters > in order to use the Xonar and I did that. In alsmixer, I found the levels > to be at 0 for this card and I raised them. Nothing I did produced sound > but there is one more setting for the stereo upmix I could work with some > more. > > *When I went to bugzilla in Firefox, I was greeted with the "Untrusted > connection!" warning. > > *In both tests of the 2014 devel releases I've made, configuring my Radeon > HD 6950 to use fglrx causes X to segfault, it appears, and some details > about that are filed in bug 280: > https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280 > > Thanks, > Rolf > >
