Bug 24469

Summary:	beta iso 2 plasma 64bits nearly perfect but...
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Philippe Didier <philippedidier>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	ISO building group <isobuild>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	kernel, mageia, marja11
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Philippe Didier 2019-03-06 19:51:38 CET

First description fo the hardware :
CPU  :AMD Athlon 4200
Graphic card : NVidia GeForce 210 (GT 218)
2 Western Digital internal hdd
1 USB hdd
1 FireWire HDD
First display : DVI Philips 201B
second Display : Sony TV (HDMI)
Soundcard : SoundBlaster Live !
Wacom Intuos3
Webcam : Quickcam 

Beta iso used as Live DVD

I- HARDWARE out of the box

1) using the nonfree driver (nvidia)
Everything is recognised everything works (even the old soundcard !!!)

The only (little) problem in the first steps is that the windows displayed for the choice of the language, the acceptation of the license, the choice of the time and the choice of the keyboard is in the middle of a screen spreaded on the two displays (needing to move the mouse from one to the other to validate the choices) It would be better that this window is not in the center but on the right part of the screen

After that, the screen is cloned on the two displays and I get offered 5 possibilities (using only the first display, only the second, cloning both of them, spreading on the two displays etc..)
Setting cloned is OK
After that I can use the plasma configuration pannel to modify the displays resolutions 
Everything works well
No problem at all for the harware
Scrolling on firefox or Dolphin is smooth

2) using the free driver (nouveau)
The windows for the first choices are on the DVI display (better than with the nvidia driver : not in the middle of a wide screen splitted on the two displays)

Everything is recognised and works

But I get a flickering screen when scrolling in firefox or dolphin
Sometimes the pop up windows are slowly displayed (staying transparent for a while when trying to install new packages with the CCM for instance)

I disabled the openGL compositing and used Xrender instead and the problem disappeared

II- SOFTWARE 

1) Firefox no problem

2) OpenOffice no problem

3) Audio files : m4a, wav, flac, mp3, opus, ogg, musepack evrything can be read
with clementine

4) video files : mp4, avi, flv, mpg, can be read with vlc
There's a little problem for wmv files (clementine is proposed by default but they indeed can be read by vlc

There's only a big problem for some webm or matroska videofiles
(I tried to workaround by installing the tainted version of vlc and its plugins
but no way)
I will open an other bug report for this

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2019-03-07 06:29:23 CET

Thanks for your feedback about the iso.

Assigning to the iso builders, for them to decide whether anything should be changed on iso-building side.

CC'ing the kernel and drivers maintainers, for the little (but different) problem with each of the video drivers.

Also CC'ing Martin, who builds the Live ISO.

Assignee: bugsquad => isobuild
CC: sysadmin-bugs => kernel, mageia, marja11

Comment 2 Philippe Didier 2019-03-07 14:06:37 CET

I meant to edit my first description in the nvidia driver part


<< 1) using the nonfree driver (nvidia)
Everything is recognised everything works (even the old soundcard !!!)

The only (little) problem in the first steps is that the windows displayed for the choice of the language, the acceptation of the license, the choice of the time and the choice of the keyboard is in the middle of a screen spreaded on the two displays (needing to move the mouse from one to the other to validate the choices) It would be better that this window is not in the center but on the right part of the screen >>

Please read :
It would be better that this window is not in the center but on the right OR THE LEFT part of the screen

Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2019-03-09 22:58:34 CET

I don't really want to left- or right- align the initial dialogues, because that would look bad for the majority of users who only have a single display. I think the best solution would be to force the nvidia driver to default to "clone" mode, so the dialogues appear on both displays. I'll see if I can find a way to do that.

For your other issues, best open separate bug reports so that they can be assigned to the right people.

Comment 4 Philippe Didier 2019-04-28 16:29:21 CEST

Thanks Martin and congratulations for your work on the beta3 iso   \o/

You did the trick :
It's OK with the nvidia driver and two displays

Now the dialogue window is cloned in the middle of the two displays 
I think we may close this little bug as solved for beta3 iso

And for all the team congratulations too :

It's perfect : everything  is recognised and works out of the box (even some exotic

the best mageia version and the easiest to use out of the box since the beginning (I'm a long time user after mandrake -Traktopel!- and mandriva )

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED