> problems with all install modes: > - Cannot select British English and a Dvorak keyboard layout (either > standard or converted to British layout). Ubuntu has a 'type some > keys to guess the layout' option which is nice, but being able to > select it in at least expert mode would be good Using that method (which requires using console-setup) is planned for "some time after etch". Frankly speaking, not being able to select the Dvorak layout at intall time is not something that I personnally would consider high priority. We all know that Dvorak keyboard users are geeky enough to be able to switch their keyboard layout after the installation. However, from what I see briefly, the dvorak layout is among those we ship in the udeb so it should be there. Do you mean that you can't choose it.....or that it doesn't work? > - Does not detect a firewire CDROM drive. > Even when selecting the sbpcd module by hand from the list, modprobe > fails. Really strange. The Dell X200 is precisely the machine that we were using back in 2004 to actually test the Firewire CD support in the sarge installer. More precisely *my* X200 was the one we tested on (at the Debconf 4 in Brazil). I have to admit, however, that the etch installer hasn't been tested on it (by me, at least). The following bit of code is what should do the trick: # if firewire was found, try to enable firewire cd support if is_not_loaded sbp2 && is_available scsi_mod; then if is_available sbp2; then db_subst hw-detect/load_progress_step CARDNAME "FireWire CDROM support" db_subst hw-detect/load_progress_step MODULE "sbp2" db_progress INFO hw-detect/load_progress_step load_module sbp2 else missing_module sbp2 "FireWire CDROM" fi fi Have you tried manually loading the "sbp2" module?
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