Flawless installation for RC1. I installed on my Sempron computer--will install on the Athlon 64 this weekend, I hope. I went with the "no Xorg" option and everything seems to be working. I have 1600x1200 resolution, as I should have. hardinfo indicates nouveau as OpenGL Vendor, Gallium 0.4 on NVA5 as Renderer, 2.1 Mesa 7.9.2 as Version, and Yes for Direct Rendering. I used the proprietary NVidia driver for beta 2.1, but will give this nouveau a go. I don't do games except for bubble games.
For the first time I was able to select 1600x1200 as screen resolution during installation. In all previous versions I couldn't install unless I used 1024x768.
I've installed a lot of extra stuff already mostly from the repos. Adobe Flash already has a new version, which I did install. It wouldn't work with Firefox and SeaMonkey until I deleted the ~/.mozilla directory I copied over from VL7b2.1. It did work with Opera, which is interesting because Opera can be a bit reluctant with new versions of Flash. The Opera license agreement text is not showing up.
Firefox and SeaMonkey refuse to run as root. I get this:
root:# seamonkey
(seamonkey-bin:6853): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
I have to do Control-C to get to a prompt.
root:# firefox
(firefox:7443): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Aborted
It does go back to a prompt.
root:# opera
opera: Session management problem: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Nevertheless, it starts.
That's all I've had time for. I'm very glad we're at the Release Candidate stage. It's looking very good.
--GrannyGeek