Hello everybody,
we finished the alpha phase today and, thus, published the first release candidate of Sculpt 24.04 under the following URLs or installed via the Sculpt "System -> Update" dialog in entry https://depot.genode.org/chelmuth from your installation.
https://depot.genode.org/chelmuth/image/sculpt-pc-2024-04-19.img.xz https://depot.genode.org/chelmuth/image/sculpt-pc-2024-04-19.zip
Note that the depot is now "chelmuth" and the alpha versions from "chelmuth_test" are no longer available.
Happy sculpting over the weekend!
Regards
On 4/19/24 10:10 AM, Christian Helmuth wrote:
Hello everybody,
we finished the alpha phase today and, thus, published the first release candidate of Sculpt 24.04 under the following URLs or installed via the Sculpt "System -> Update" dialog in entry https://depot.genode.org/chelmuth from your installation.
https://depot.genode.org/chelmuth/image/sculpt-pc-2024-04-19.img.xz https://depot.genode.org/chelmuth/image/sculpt-pc-2024-04-19.zip
There are some really nice usability enhancements in this release!
I got to play around with it a little bit over the weekend, in VirtualBox and on real hardware, with positive results.
The power menu in Leitzentrale is really nice, and Standby worked fine for me in my limited testing on the ThinkPad L380 Yoga. The new "Options" panel in the "+" menu might be the star of the show - that is a real time-saver! The scrollable Components view in Leitzentrale (including TrackPoint!) solves any screen size limitations, and putting all hardware drivers under the "Hardware" top-level node is clearer IMO.
The only thing that didn't work for me (as Pirmin Duss already mentioned) was that I didn't get any audio output for the web browser, although I did hear a popping noise when enabling the Audio component, so something is working there. (I haven't tried any other audio playback yet.)
All of this is just what's obvious on the surface - I can't wait to see what else is in there!
Thanks for putting out these alphas / RCs!
John J. Karcher devuser@alternateapproach.com
Hello John,
The only thing that didn't work for me (as Pirmin Duss already mentioned) was that I didn't get any audio output for the web browser, although I did hear a popping noise when enabling the Audio component, so something is working there. (I haven't tried any other audio playback yet.)
Like Pirmin, you could look at the audio driver's 'mixer_state' report, the actual mixer's report '/report/runtime/mixer/state' and look for any mentioning of 'azalia0: codecs: …' in the Sculpt LOG. Note that restarting the driver might render it unusable (e.g., you will not hear anything) until you reset your system.
I also published a current version of my 'cmus' pkg for 24.04 that you could use for testing and there is also Alexander's 'firefox@seoul' pkg that features audio support as well.
Regards Josef
On 4/23/24 12:22 PM, Josef Söntgen wrote:
Hello John,
The only thing that didn't work for me (as Pirmin Duss already mentioned) was that I didn't get any audio output for the web browser, although I did hear a popping noise when enabling the Audio component, so something is working there. (I haven't tried any other audio playback yet.)
Like Pirmin, you could look at the audio driver's 'mixer_state' report, the actual mixer's report '/report/runtime/mixer/state' and look for any mentioning of 'azalia0: codecs: …' in the Sculpt LOG. Note that restarting the driver might render it unusable (e.g., you will not hear anything) until you reset your system.
I also published a current version of my 'cmus' pkg for 24.04 that you could use for testing and there is also Alexander's 'firefox@seoul' pkg that features audio support as well.
Thanks, Josef! It looks like your point about restarting the driver was the problem. Once I ensured the driver was only started once (i.e. choosing the Preset before enabling the Audio option), the Firefox VM worked! (I haven't tried "cmus" yet, but I will.)
It looks like this release has everything I need, so I am going to try to fulfill my multi-year dream of switching to Sculpt as my daily driver, using this version. Everything I do is in various VMs, so all I should need to do is configure those. The real fun then begins, with gradually migrating the functions out of the VMs and into native Sculpt!
Happy Sculpting!
John J. Karcher devuser@alternateapproach.com
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