therunnyman
June 23rd, 2006, 12:08 AM
Venting...thanks for indulging me, if you do decide to continue...
So, when I first installed Dapper, I had a number of problems, none of which have been satisfactorily corrected, but have been hacked into submission and are, for the moment, working. I'll not reiterate my complaint about Dapper's inablity to enumerate hard disks correctly, I'm sure you've had enough of that, and the shame that should be draped over every single developer like a pall for a problem as lethally serious as that doesn't appear to have led to any concern or fix. Indeed, I'm informed we'll have to wait for Edgy, heh, for our drives to be enumerated properly.
Then I find I have to run gnomebaker as root in order to burn a disc. And it is spelled "disc," developers; direct your beady little eyes to the tray of any optical device, and you'll find the technology is called "Compact Disc," not "Disk." Furthernore, you don't "fixate" a session, you "close" a session - that's straight from the Orange Book Standard, guys. Shame!
Perusing fstab, I find I have 36 optical devices somewhere; I thought I had only two, but lookee! there's cdrom0, cdrom1, cdrom2, cdrom3...all the way on up to cdrom36. Now you'd think, as a user, I'd be able to burn a disc in at least one of these 36 optical drives I've evidently got, but I can't. Instead I get a hard, grinding, summary crash. Fortunately, you can run gnomebaker as root with impunity; don't try that with K3B, or you won't be able to log in again until you reconfiogure your ICEAuthority file.
In any event, I'll hack something in a second here to fix the optical drive problem. A great leap was made moments ago when I erased all but two optical drives in fstab, rebooted, ran gnomebaker as root, and successfully erased, then burned a home-backup CD-RW.
By now, it should come as no surprise to me that Dapper can't handle even the most rudimentary hardware. It's setting me off now, though: LTS, hah. That's a good one guys.
Just to keep the user base mollified, I wonder, could the developers at the very least furnish reliable basic hardware support? I'm hearing - I mean, among the other issues, including hard disk misenumeration - that not even mice are working. God forbid you have a pen drive, or a USB audio device; then you're really scroohed.
Dapper shouldn't have been released. Please, for the love of the community, don't pull that kind of crap in the future. I'm sure we're all willing to wait however long it takes, 6 months, a year, whatever, for a decent upgrade.
Ahhh, I feel much better. Now I shall smoke my pipe. I found a delightful aromatic tobacco called "Ivanhoe," close in smoke to your classic Victorian Standard, but a bit more robust. I'll reccomend that and Breezy to the pipe smokers in the community.
runny
So, when I first installed Dapper, I had a number of problems, none of which have been satisfactorily corrected, but have been hacked into submission and are, for the moment, working. I'll not reiterate my complaint about Dapper's inablity to enumerate hard disks correctly, I'm sure you've had enough of that, and the shame that should be draped over every single developer like a pall for a problem as lethally serious as that doesn't appear to have led to any concern or fix. Indeed, I'm informed we'll have to wait for Edgy, heh, for our drives to be enumerated properly.
Then I find I have to run gnomebaker as root in order to burn a disc. And it is spelled "disc," developers; direct your beady little eyes to the tray of any optical device, and you'll find the technology is called "Compact Disc," not "Disk." Furthernore, you don't "fixate" a session, you "close" a session - that's straight from the Orange Book Standard, guys. Shame!
Perusing fstab, I find I have 36 optical devices somewhere; I thought I had only two, but lookee! there's cdrom0, cdrom1, cdrom2, cdrom3...all the way on up to cdrom36. Now you'd think, as a user, I'd be able to burn a disc in at least one of these 36 optical drives I've evidently got, but I can't. Instead I get a hard, grinding, summary crash. Fortunately, you can run gnomebaker as root with impunity; don't try that with K3B, or you won't be able to log in again until you reconfiogure your ICEAuthority file.
In any event, I'll hack something in a second here to fix the optical drive problem. A great leap was made moments ago when I erased all but two optical drives in fstab, rebooted, ran gnomebaker as root, and successfully erased, then burned a home-backup CD-RW.
By now, it should come as no surprise to me that Dapper can't handle even the most rudimentary hardware. It's setting me off now, though: LTS, hah. That's a good one guys.
Just to keep the user base mollified, I wonder, could the developers at the very least furnish reliable basic hardware support? I'm hearing - I mean, among the other issues, including hard disk misenumeration - that not even mice are working. God forbid you have a pen drive, or a USB audio device; then you're really scroohed.
Dapper shouldn't have been released. Please, for the love of the community, don't pull that kind of crap in the future. I'm sure we're all willing to wait however long it takes, 6 months, a year, whatever, for a decent upgrade.
Ahhh, I feel much better. Now I shall smoke my pipe. I found a delightful aromatic tobacco called "Ivanhoe," close in smoke to your classic Victorian Standard, but a bit more robust. I'll reccomend that and Breezy to the pipe smokers in the community.
runny