"Terje J. Hanssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just did a new attempt with 10.2 alpha 5 x86_64 on a Dell Precision > 490 Xeon workstation. Happily the alpha4 USB mouse problem was fixed > and the Gnome dekstop was possible to start testing. But I encountered > several issues during the installation or with the setup after login, > as noted below. > > Selected installation of Gnome as default desktop (+ most of Gnome and > KDE incl. Desktop Effects and Remote Desktop), Xen server and other > server utilities (NFS, Print, File, Web & LAMP). > > Even the Internet connection test with latest version notes responded > OK, yet the following, suggested online configuration responded a > fault with the Internet connection and didn't work!
"Most annoying bug" > After login to Gnome, there was 17 software updates available. But the "Most annoying bug" > Zen updater ran into "Dependency Resolution Failed" error (as > usual). Didn't come further with this. > During the installation configuration my NVIDIA Quadro FX550 card and > Dell 2405 FPW WUXGA monitor were automatic detected and setup correct > with 1920x1200 resolution and 24 bit colordepth using the OSS "nv" > driver, Fine! But I wished to use 3D for Xgl/Compiz and installed the > latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64 proprietary driver according to the Howto > for Suse users. So far so good. > > Went afterwards into Gnome Control Center > Desktop Effects to enable > 3D and Xgl. Both 3D and Desktop Effects were disabled. Though my > Quadro FX550 is still on the "not tested yet" part of the xgl HCL, it > was NOT even possible to force enabling 3D/Xgl with the suggested > Shift and dual click! Mmmh - please file a bug report. > It was neither possible to start SaX2 from the button in Desktop > Effects, nor from the traditional program menu added to the > panel. Started ok from YaST2>Graphic Card and display, but 3D was > greyed out in SaX2 and it didn't sound possible to get 3D enabled > there. Tried also "glxinfo" in a terminal, but the command wasn't > found, remarkable as this did work in 10.1. Is freeglut not installed on your system? Perhaps we should add it, please file a bug against "Patterns" > Among other issues I noticed on my first test are: > > Starting YaST2 from an added launcher on the panel, doesn't ask for a > privileged password, but starts YaST2 in the limited "user mode" > directly. Please file a bug. > Trying to add a launcher for "Monitoring CPU frequences" to the panel, > responded this tools wasn't supported. Please file a bug. > Wished to cusomize my login window preferences, but it didn't start > from the menu i.e. > More aplication>System>Login Windows, and responded with error message > "gdmsetup", no such file or map. Please file a bug. > A visual issue in application's pulldown menus (i.e Firefox), is that > when pointing on menu entries with the mouse pointer, the activated > text becomes invisible (maybe due to a text vs background color issue) Please file a bug. > Tried to download (rpm) files with Firefox, and it worked only using > left- lick on the url to download directly on the desktop. Using the > normal right-click to save the file on a selected file/map > didn'work. Nothing happened after Clicking the "Save" button. Please file a bug. > > Comments, suggestions, confirmations or other experiences? You've found quite a number of issues, please file them so that they get fixed, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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