<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm Glen the maintainer of AVL..<br></div><div><br></div><div>Uhm yes, lots of people use it and some are even slightly happy with it...: b<br></div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div>http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/ All info about passwords and secure checksums are found there.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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..</div><div><br></div><div>Also please join the AV Linux forum here: http://bandshed.net/forum/index.php</div><div><br></div><div>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..</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer<br></div><br><br><blockquote class="atmailquote"><br>----- Original Message -----<br><div id="origionalMessageFromField" style="width:100%;display:inline;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Dale Powell" <dj_kaza@hotmail.com></div><br><div id="origionalMessageToField" style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org" <linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org><br><div id="origionalMessageSentField" style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br><div style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:48:59 +0000<br><div id="origionalMessageSubjectField" style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>[LAU] AVL2018 first impressions<br><br><br><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> Hi list.</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> Are people actually using the new AVL? I was quite happy to see it resurrected but so far first impressions really are not good!</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> 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!</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> 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.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> 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!</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> None of the dark themes correctly change the windows decorations with the title bar always remaining light.</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> Doesn't prompt for locale settings on install and there is no language and locale in the Settings.</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> 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!</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> And this is just what I've found in 10 minutes! Am I missing something or is it really a pretty much unusable distro??</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> Hopefully I'm just missing something or for some reason my experience is exceptional.....</div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> <br></div> <div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);"> Regards, Dale.<br></div> </blockquote></body></html>