hi, thanks a lot for this report, and sorry for the delay! Apparently we missed it when we triaged all these 3.0~betaN test reports a couple weeks ago.
Dots John: > I plugged in 3 beta I'll assume this means "Tails 3.0~beta4", given our previous discussion. > and have whisperback report, however, when trying to encrypt it > through the menu it hangs and needs a force quit, after which the > menu item dissappears. I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: which menu and menu item? What does "hang and need a force quit"? > what works and does not work on the trekstore surftab twin: > - grub is 32 bit (normal) and screen right side up > - after grub the creen rotates upside down > - the login screen is upside down: REQUEST: can the login screen have a > simple button > to rotate the display. The button would trigger the simple command to rotate > the screen. I think our efforts would be better used reporting this problem upstream, than implementing a workaround. I can help you do that once we have the WhisperBack technical details :) > - the login screen keyboard selector is picky. you have to select the > language, and > then scroll down to the appropriate keyboard. I have to say this annoys me to. Maybe we should raise it to the Tails UX mailing list ([email protected]), where this new Greeter was designed. Do you want to do it? If you go this way, one recommendation: describe real-life situations and problems, and keep requests and suggestions for later. UX and design people are good at taking into account the experience you'll describe *and* all the other aspect you and I are not aware of; so even if most suggestions we would make will improve things for one use case, chances are they'll make things worse in other use cases we didn't think of :) > REQUEST: Instead of filtering by language, allow listing by country. Why would this change improve things in your opinion? I don't know if that's doable anyway: the way keymaps are organized is by language, which makes sense as the language, rather than the country, defines which chars you need. Besides, given a country, you cannot tell which language someone will want to type in. > - the two finger scrolling goes in the opposite direction from > version 2.12 and earlier. REQUEST: make 2 finger scrolling again > the waz it was before. We decided, on purpose, to switch to "natural scrolling". See details there: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/11969 The thing is, everyone has their own habits and preferences for this kind of settings, so whatever we set as the default will make a number of people unhappy. So we had to use other criteria than "N people complain if we do X" to make our decision. > - keyboard is not persistent: REQUEST: make keyboard persistent That's a very frequent request: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5501 I agree someone should do something about it :) > - touchscreen works, though erratic behviour. It would need > extensive calibration and for the calibration to be made > persistent, or other drivers. > - the trackpad is erratic. it could use calibration and calibration > made persistent, or other drivers. Pardon my ignorance, but: how does one calibrate a touchscreen or trackpad in GNOME? In passing, I wonder if that's a calibration problem, or just buggy drivers. It would be interesting to search for bug reports about it on other Linux distributions than Tails :) > - sd card slot crashes/freezes computer, it is listed in bios as "MS CUSTOM > SDBUS > DRIVER" it would need a driver. it being listed in bios creates the potential > opportunity to make the sd card slot bootable if the OS has the right drivers. What triggers this crash/freeze? > - the wifi needs additional firmware to work, can installing this > firmware and driver be made "persistent", and how. I dont quite > understand how I should attempt this. If we knew the exact name of the missing firmware, we could ask for it to be included in Debian (non-free, probably) so we can install it in Tails. Can you please give me this info? > - restarting does not work on beta 3 while it works on 2.12. (this is on all > my > machines by the way). it shows the page to unplug the usb, then screen goes > black > while the machine stays on. I very much hope this is solved in Tails 3.0~rc1 :) Can you please try & report back? > My ultimate goal is find a cheap sub $150 machine bought new whith > wifi working and sd card booting. I find this goal very well chosen, thanks for working on it :) Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
