[LAU] AVL2018 first impressions

[Glen MacArthur]

Hi,

I'm Glen the maintainer of AVL..

Uhm yes, lots of people use it and some are even slightly happy with
it...: b

I don't know where you downloaded from but most of the preliminary
info you've missed is all on the actual project website, any posts by
me about releases will always point to the website:
http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/ All info about passwords and secure
checksums are found there.

As stated on the site, AV Linux is created with 'Systemback' and
therefore requires the username and password to login, I'm not a
'proper' developer or Linux guru of any kind, I work full time (and
then some in the summer months) in a business that has absolutely
nothing to do with computers and I'm also a part-time musician and
studio owner, AV Linux is totally a spare time project and they ain't
making any more spare time! : ). I've used Linux for music production
for more than a decade and merely am trying to share a working system
with the 3rd party tools at hand. As with any project spread over
(literally) thousands of users some people will have flawless installs
and superlative hardware support and others will wonder aloud how
could anyone possibly use such a piece of crap... The web is full of
forums with popular projects that echo the same diversity of
experience. 

As for the touchpad issue try commenting out "options psmouse
proto=imps" in /etc/modprobe.d/ reboot and see if that changes
anything. That is the only customization relating to touchpads in AV
Linux, other than that any web seaches on touchpads in Debian Linux
should shed some light. AV Linux is simply Debian Stretch with a
custom Kernel and a layer of customization relating to Audio
production and system tweaks..

Also please join the AV Linux forum here:
http://bandshed.net/forum/index.php

I don't check LAU regularly and just happened to see this today, also
answers on the forum are dictated by the volunteer availability of
myself and other users and it's summer holidays in the northern
hemisphere so be patient for answers..

Lastly rgareus is partially correct that AV Linux is designed to
install and create without any further intervention but the most
recent versions (2016, 2017, 2018) are fully intended to be as
upgradable and customizable as any Debian Linux would be.

Best Regards, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Powell" <dj_kaza at hotmail.com>
To:"linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org"
<linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
Cc:
Sent:Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:48:59 +0000
Subject:[LAU] AVL2018 first impressions

 Hi list.  
  Are people actually using the new AVL? I was quite happy to see it
resurrected but so far first impressions really are not good!  
  So you select the Installer option, rather than run live, and it
still prompts you to log in, so have to exit, track down the manual
and get the username and password. This is just silly!  
  It wasn't added to Grub so I had to boot into my old install and run
a update-grub to even be able to load it up.

  Touchpad scroll doesn't work, not even after removing the
xorg-libinput driver to make sure it is using the synaptics driver
which is required for most touchpad functions to work in XFCE. This
basically makes it unusable!  
  None of the dark themes correctly change the windows decorations
with the title bar always remaining light.  
  Doesn't prompt for locale settings on install and there is no
language and locale in the Settings.  
  My root password works fine when issuing commands (such as apt
update) in the terminal but it does not accept it as being the correct
password when trying the GUI settings features such as those found in
AV Linux Assistant (also tried the default one from the manual and
that doesn't work either.) Tried at least 20 times!  
  And this is just what I've found in 10 minutes! Am I missing
something or is it really a pretty much unusable distro??  
  Hopefully I'm just missing something or for some reason my
experience is exceptional.....  
  Regards, Dale.

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