[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 RC - Installation from a DVD with a beginner point of sight

Thu May 10 13:08:33 CEST 2012

As usual, I burn a DVD. I install the RC release on a PC and I write on 
+another what happens. 
+
+1- On the first screen, F2 allows to choice the langage. The timeout is too 
+short and people who discover this screen have no time to press F2.
+A timeout of 60s or no timeout should be a better choice.
+
+2- Durin package installation, the remaining time is too much false. It begins 
+with 50min, shows 1h30 but 15min later it shows 5 minutes.
+
+3- In "Résumé", setting local hour, Paris is selected, that's right but when I 
+ask for a ntp server, France should be selected instead of the whole world.
+
+Installation is near of perfection, but we always need to do better :-)
+After the reboot. The result works very well and is beautiful!
+I have a Midiman Delta44 sound card. I just need to set the levels in 
+envy24control to make it work.
+The "nouveau" video driver works fine with a card GeForce GT220. With this 
+card, I can forget the proprietary driver.
+
+Problems found
+
+1- Video mp4 : there is no sound. a pop up asks for a plugin MPEG*4 AAC but 
+AAC is the coder, AAD is the decoder which is needed. More, the tainted 
+packages must be selected first. gstreamer-faad is needed.
+
+2- mpeg sequence, v2, program multiplex: A pop-up says that DVD subpicture 
+decoder is needed and is unabled to find it. However, the movie starts and 
+stops few seconds later.
+
+3- After the installation,  it should be great to have a screen saying:
+- you may select the sources of software and for example, unselect the CD/DVD, 
+add the non-free, the tainted and their updates which are necessary to allow 
+flash and mp4.
+
+These little problems for a geek,  are montains for beginner. With Ubuntu, 
+they have no to take care of them. This is a reason for its success.
+
+-- 
+Pierre Jarillon - http://pjarillon.free.fr/
+Vice-président de l'ABUL : http://abul.org
+Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que McDonald est à la gastronomie
+