> 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
>
>


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