Sunday, November 7, 2010

Ubuntu kernel 2.6.37-rc1-maverick available

“…an author, with thesaurus in hand, chooses the names of variables carefully…” — Knuth, Literate Programming

If you want to test the latest rc kernel available from the Ubuntu kernel mainline team then hop over to this link, you'll want to download three files, the linux kernel and either the x86 or 64 headers.

Some users report that both 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 (there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two releases) fixes choppy video and lag in Maverick. There is quite a bit of talk about the slowness of the 2.6.35 kernel, so this might be a solution if you experiencing hardware problems.

THANKS: Khattam

NOTE: Ubuntu's default infrastructure for handling kernel OOPSes will not work for these builds as they are external to Ubuntu. To contribute this information to kerneloops.org you will need to make a couple of changes.

First, install the kerneloops-applet package which will handle the prompting and submission on any problem. Then edit /etc/kerneloops.conf and delete the submit-pipe line from the file, so that kerneloops-applet will be used. After a reboot kerneloops-applet will then prompt you if there are any problems and you can choose to submit the information to kerneloops.org.

See here

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