Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi, Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have noticed far more stutters (both when sound is played and when moving things like the mouse pointer in X) and periods of up to half a second where interacti

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:37 +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the > default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have > noticed far more stutters (both when sound is played and when moving > things like the mouse poi

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Scott Henson
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Hi, > > Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the > default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have > noticed far more stutters (both when sound is played and when moving > things like the mouse pointer in X) and periods of

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
Scott Henson napisał(a): > Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the >> default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have >> noticed far more stutters (both when sound is played and when moving >> things like the mou

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Jan Claeys
On di, 2007-03-06 at 18:31 +0100, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > Scott Henson napisał(a): > > Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > >> Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the > >> default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have > >> noticed far more stutters (both

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 04:28 -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 08:37 +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > Has there been a change to which preemption patches are included in the > > default Ubuntu kernel used in Feisty? I ask because I seem to have > > noticed far more stutters (both

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 21:19 +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > esound is certainly enabled but does that also affect X mouse cursor > movement? Also the sound card does hardware mixing and I'm sure the hold Neither of my audio devices are capable of hardware muxing, so it really was noticeable here.

Re: Desktop responsiveness in Feisty (vs Edgy)

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:37 -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > Are all of your detected audio devices capable of hardware muxing? Perhaps not the microphone but all output devices are, yes (just the one SBLive sound card). -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. This is a well known problem and there have been a fair few reports of this problem listed on the forums as well as within launchpad. One of the more recent version of these reports w

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread t u
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes > cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. I'd like to +1 _at least_ putting a warning to the release notes... It's a known and common-enough issue to warn people against it... -- Ubuntu-devel-di

Webmin replacement

2007-03-06 Thread George Farris
At some point there was a discussion about using Webmin or replacing it, has there been any discussion about this? Is Ubuntu recommending something else or some other framework? -- George Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Malaspina University-College As with the rail barons of the past: "There is no

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread Caroline Ford
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes > cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. This is a well known problem > and there have been a fair few reports of this problem listed on the > forums as well as within launchpad. One of the more re

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread Jan Claeys
On di, 2007-03-06 at 22:12 +, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose > BIOSes cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. My system was bought in early 2000 and so probably has a BIOS from 1999, but it boots just fine from this disk:

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread David Dean
two cents for free.. >From memory the "old" way to deal with this was to create a tiny slice at the start of the disk, and install boot there - whether the user requests it or not. There is (almost) no down-side to this in the modern era, and personally, if ubuntu wants 10mb at the start of my 200

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread Michael R. Head
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:09 +1100, David Dean wrote: > two cents for free.. > > From memory the "old" way to deal with this was to create a tiny slice > at the start of the disk, and install boot there - whether the user > requests it or not. There is (almost) no down-side to this in the > modern

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-06 Thread Arwyn Hainsworth
On 07/03/07, George Farris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At some point there was a discussion about using Webmin or replacing it, > has there been any discussion about this? Is Ubuntu recommending > something else or some other framework? There have been several discussions where webmin popped up.

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-06 Thread greek ordono
Greetings, Arwyn, in what language are you going to implement this tool, python/perl? If its going to be in python I will be willing to help. Can we fork rPathAppliancePlatform to ubuntu? Cheers greek - Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and

Re: Webmin replacement

2007-03-06 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/6/07, George Farris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At some point there was a discussion about using Webmin or replacing it, > has there been any discussion about this? Is Ubuntu recommending > something else or some other framework? There are a few replacements out there, the most promising I