A safe assumption, but they drop new builds every day, if not multiple times
a day, and many of the issues you may be having in, again, I assume build
5384, may very well already be fixed. For example; in 5472, there was no
video driver for the Intel 945GM chipset. In 5536, there are drivers, so
that's fixed. If I were still running 5472, the answer to fixing my video
card driver would be to wait until I got the next build available to me that
fixed that problem.

I've seen a few comments in this NG that 5384 was not a great build. Reading
through your email again, I see another example; your last comment about the
security dlg boxes is, I assume, User Account Control (UAC). If I remember
correctly, in 5384 one had to go into the local gpo editor and disable a
bunch of stuff to stop the UAC dlg boxes from interrupting every little
thing one did. In 5472 and 5536, there's a single checkbox, in the UI, not
hidden in the local gpo editor, that one checks or unchecks to turn that
feature off or on.

I got my Audigy 2 card working in 5384 by using modded drivers I found
somewhere. I assume you've checked the Creative site for updated Vista beta
drivers?

Good luck getting your stuff working. Be sure to try and get a hold of RC1
when it's released. It may well fix a number of your problems, although I
doubt it will fix all.

Thanks,

Lang


"Rob Wilkens" wrote in message
...
I care that you're listening.

All I know is without me asking, Microsoft Sent Me a Beta 2 DVD in the
mail (2 of them), so I tried it. I presumed they wanted SOME sort of
feedback on it.



-Rob

DIV"Lang Murphy" > wrote in
message .../DIV Not to put
too fine a point on it... but any issues you have with Beta 2,
assuming build 5384, are irrelevant. There is absolutely no sense
whatsoever in trying to get build 5384 "working" to your satisfaction.
And that's not intended as a "dis"... it's just the way it is... it's not
far off from saying, hey, Word for Windows 1.0 won't install on my XP
box... uh, yeah. We know. We're listening. Not that anyone cares
that -I'm- listening... ;-D

Lang


"Rob Wilkens" wrote in message
...
I must note some disappointments with Vista Beta 2 and hardware...

(1) There are NO sound drivers included (I went to advanced install),
seems like an important thing to leave out, all I've got right now is
the pc speaker 'beep'.
(2) My Soundblaster Audigy LS (only 2 years old from Circuit City)
doesn't work, though creative "promises" drivers are "TBA"
(3) Internally, there's an AC97 audio chip, I've been trying to download
drivers for that for the last hour or so, but it seems everyone else is
too because it's a SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW download.
(4) Claims to have Media Center features in the O.S. but at least not
built in is support for the TV card that came with my HP Media Center PC
m470n, again only a 2 year old machine and Media-Center compatible (was
running Media Center 2005 edition, still is actually, on another
partition)
(5) My Microsoft Branded Fingerprint Reader (so far as I know) does not
work with Windows Vista Beta 2.
(6) I went all out and spent $20 on a brand new printer at Target
(lexmark z611) a few days ago. I figured the printer was cheaper than
the 1 ink cartridge that came with it. For some reason, Vista can
recognize the printer at boot time, but the drivers that came with the
printer claim they can't communicate over the USB port. It's not a big
deal, I have a Laserjet 1100 which works fine. However, I can't even
UNINSTALL the Lexmark driver (by right clicking in control
panel/printers and selecting delete). Maybe from add/remove programs it
will let me do it, but I shouldn't have to do it that way.
(7) On installing some drivers, I guess for security, it opens windows
on a black screen you have to switch to. I suppose it's a security
feature, but it's annoying as all heck, and for Joe-User it won't make
the system any more secure, it will just cause headaches.

I'm sure I'll have more complaints later, but eh, who's listening
anyway.

-Rob