Sounder 6 PPC review

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:12:07AM +0100, David Miller wrote:

> On the first boot, it tried to (and continues to on each reboot since 
> then) do a mknode for /dev/hda*, which already exist.

I see these as well.  I just uploaded mdadm_1.5.0-2ubuntu3 which should
avoid the errors.

> I also get a lot of device-mapper errors on every reboot.

This is another symptom of
https://bugzilla.no-name-yet.com/show_bug.cgi?id=313

> I think it would be nice when doing the additional packages installation
> after the first boot if we had a thermometer to watch like during the
> initial install instead of having to watch all the dpkg output and having
> no idea how close it is to finishing.

This is doable; I was thinking about it yesterday.

> When I fired up GDM, I was greeted with the sunflower on the blue 
> background, rather than the new Ubuntu greeter theme.

This was fixed since Sounder 6.

> The battery meter applet in the panel didn't work; it always showed a 
> dead battery, even with the machine plugged in.  "modprobe apm_emu" on 
> the command line immediately fixed this.

This seems to be a PowerPC-specific thing; should this module always be
loaded, or should the battery applet have direct support for the native
power interface?

> Sound doesn't work.  It used to on Sid on this machine.  I haven't 
> played around enough to know why it's not working.

Let us know what you find out, especially what type of sound device you have
and which kernel module supports it.

> There was no remote apt repository configured, only the CDROM, so I had 
> to poke around online to find out where the apt repository was.  Should 
> this be put in place by the installer?  (It could even be commented out 
> by default - Synaptic shows it as disabled and you can check the box to 
> enable it that way)

The installer should write the entry, test it, and leave it in place if it
works.

> Once set up with the apt repository, I tried to install Firefox and 
> Thunderbird (neither of which were on the CD).  Firefox installed and 
> worked, but Thunderbird doesn't appear to be in the repository.  Was 
> this an oversight, or did the ppc version not get built or something?

Firefox is installed by default, at least on Sounder CD 7 / i386.
Thunderbird doesn't seem to be built for PowerPC.  LaMont?

Dave, please retest with Sounder CD 7 and also the new mdadm above.

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 - mdz