[PC-BSD Testing] 8.1 RC1 Issues
Bill Sun
billksun at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 13:16:43 PDT 2010
Thanks for looking into this Alexander!
-Bill
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow at uct.ua> wrote:
> Ok, what I've found:
> 1. Lates ibus builds and works just fine;
> 2. I sent email to port maintainer, he either update port, or help me to do
> this soon;
> 3. Broken icons are SVG files, not reported to anyone yet, don't know
> exactly how to re-test it in python (maybe lack of some lib, dunno );
> 4. Both traditional and simplified are typing OK, switch between them
> (ctrl+shift+F) works too. In different modes different glyphs produced;
>
> Well, I think as soon new ibus will arrive in ports tree, your problem will
> be solved.
> Maybe SVG problem wiil go too.
>
> Good week-end to all!
>
> 2010/7/15 Bill Sun <billksun at gmail.com>
>
> PinYin - Traditional Chinese - Simplified Chinese - English translation
>>
>> ni hao - 你好 - 你好 - hello
>>
>> xie xie - 謝謝 - 谢谢 - thank you
>>
>> shi jie - 世界 - 世界 - world
>>
>> guo jia - 國家 - 国家 - country
>>
>> ting - 聽 - 听 - listen
>>
>> shuo - 說 - 说 - say
>>
>> Let me know if you need more examples.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow at uct.ua>wrote:
>>
>>> 13.07.2010 9:18, Alexander Yerenkow пишет:
>>>
>>> 11.07.2010 8:09, Bill Sun пишет:
>>>
>>> I am running into some issues with my RC1 installation:
>>>
>>> 1. I have some trouble with sound on my RC1 installation. Sound does
>>> work. But I have 2 sound devices. One is the on-board HDA sound, and
>>> another is my Audigy2 ZS card. Both work in osstest. But in Phonon, I
>>> cannot get the sound to output to Audigy2. Under the "Multimedia" settings
>>> I have moved the Audigy2 card to the top of the list. But I cannot get any
>>> sound output to it. I can only get sound output to my HDA, is there any way
>>> to make sound work with my Audigy2 card in KDE?
>>> 2. In "System Settings" -> "Advanced" -> "Samba", the configuration
>>> screen is read-only. It should probably ask for administration password
>>> like when you access it from "Launcher" -> "Applications" -> "Samba
>>> Manager".
>>> 3. I can't seem to install fonts from "System Settings" -> "Font
>>> Installer". When I navigate to the directory with the .otf file in the
>>> "Add" dialog box, I cannot see the file, hence I cannot install it.
>>> 4. IBus is not quite working properly. I have added Chinese-PinYin
>>> and Chinese-ChewYin input methods in "Preferences". However, I cannot
>>> select the ChewYin IME. The tray icon simply flashes to the ChewYin icon
>>> and back to the default. The PinYin IME works, but there is no graphics for
>>> the icon. There is also no icons for the language panel under PinYin (see
>>> attachment). I was pleasantly surprised that IBus was installed by default,
>>> but it would be nice if the Qt applications default to using IBus as the IM
>>> as well. So far I've only figured out how to get dolphin to use IBus. I
>>> have no idea how to do so in Kate. Also, IIRC, version 1.3 and up of
>>> ibus-pinyin can toggle between Traditional and Simplified Chinese input,
>>> however, I do not see such option in the version with RC1.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll look into it, but probably at weekend only;
>>> We have 1.3.3 version of ibus in ports, however 1.3.6 available;
>>> An also it could be simply due to broken port of pinyin.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could someone who know chinese provide me with some phrases and
>>> hieroglyphs to test both simplified and traditinal?
>>> Currently, I enter "zhong wen", and see this: 中文
>>> I could test other symbols, but I don't know what to enter :-P
>>>
>>> And I still can't find what's wrong and why icons aren't seeing.
>>>
>>> Thanks :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1.
>>> 2. I was surprised to find out that the thumb buttons on my Logitech
>>> G9 mouse works out of the box. However, the left and right tilt buttons on
>>> the wheel were reported as the thumb buttons as well (buttons 8 & 9) in xev.
>>> 3. NTFS file systems cannot be mounted. Or more precisely, my NTFS
>>> formatted USB hard disk cannot be mounted in dolphin. I know this can be
>>> done using ntfs-3g, but I'm hoping that this is installed and configured by
>>> default.
>>>
>>> Overall, I am quite impressed with PC-BSD 8.1 RC1. The fit and finish is
>>> much better than the Kubuntu 9.10 installation that is upgraded from Ubuntu
>>> that I was using before I wiped it out for PC-BSD. Most of the defaults are
>>> sensible and I like the fact that there's custom artwork in the custom
>>> theme. With the more permissible license that is BSD, the out-of-the-box
>>> experience is much better and practical than the one I experienced with
>>> Ubuntu (Nvidia binary driver installed on first boot, no additional codec
>>> installation to view my video files, printer installation was a breeze).
>>> First impressions are good, and even though I still had some sound problems,
>>> it's nothing compared to the sound problems I had on Linux.
>>>
>>> -Bill
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