There a few cases of penitum M bases machines, sony vaio, asus, and mabe others, that the SMP kernel causes a CPU run-away problem. Idle CPU usage of 40% at idle.
The problem was reported in dapper and fixed for a majority of systems, but this problem exists still for a few, bug fixes have been filed to attempt to open this problem, but haven't seemed to have gained any traction. If this problem will not be fixed in future "generic" kernels; seems like a simple fix to offer a 'not on the cd' replacement kernel. and again, its just a request. -- Feisty wish list: Non-SMP 686 Kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/75510 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
