installation report : ubuntu iso, D865PERL intel based mobo system.

[Mark Shuttleworth]

>2) On the package deployment and installation phase,
>there were countless packages that reported to be
>missing dependencies and thus couldn't be installed at
>the time. This tossed me back to an aptitude screen,
>in which I was supposed (d-i specifics?) to manually
>satisfy the missing dependencies. i just did again the
>"gnome" meta package from aptitude and continues. I
>have yet to stumble upon missing packages or
>functionalities at least on the gnome gui desktop. I
>hate to see the layman getting scared off by this :)
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To be certain that you have everything you should have, in aptitude 
select the ubuntu-desktop task and press + then g and y.

Was this a daily, or Sounder 8? It can happen that a daily build isn't 
internally consistent, but should *not* happen for a Sounder CD.

>3) I don't know how important that is, but as someone
>used to hear music on the works, I believe the layman
>would not know what would be the right CD /dev entry
>for him to tell the CDPLayer about it. having 2 cd
>devices, the player was outofthebox configured to use
>to first one on the cable, any way to make some
>abstraction for it and let him choos the "First CD
>device in your system" or the second?
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This is something we could address for Hoary - some lay-person-oriented 
view of devices, which maps to the underlying /dev/ view.

>4) Menu layout seems nice and appealing, however I'd
>suggest adding some more preset stuff to the desktop,
>like the Home folder link and  maybe some other User
>specific presets.
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We are moving away from having anything on the desktop at all. 
Everything you need will appear in the Computer menu. We won't get it 
totally right for Warty, but that's where we'll be in the Hoary timeframe.

>5)Sound seems to not be working. running rythmbox
>yields "Couldn't open /dev/dsp".
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In a console, what does alsamixer show?

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