I understand that. My priority was to get my partners PC working reliably and the band-aid did that. It looks like a timing issue during startup to me. 15-20 years ago I would have dived into source code to try and sort the problem myself but I have other priorities now.
I agree with your comment on the raft of drivers. I used to recompile kernels, drivers etc to minimise overheads and optimise performance. Now with huge amounts of memory and disk I worry less about it. Backward compatibility has a lot to answer for too. One occaissional advantage of have an installation load lots of unnecessary stuff is that you can move a hard drive between different systems and have it boot. It has helped me with disaster recovery once or twice. A clean server install shouldn't have any un-necessary stuff though. Being exclusively a laptop user these days I find Network Manager great as I move between LAN/WLAN/3G environments - it just works for the most part except when there are driver conflicts as happens from time to time. In a permanent LAN environment it would be a useless overhead. Cheers Jim On 06/08/10 10:18, rcbpage wrote: > Regards Jim, > > My problem with that is, is that it's putting a band-aid on the problem, > not fixing the source of it. > And my boxen is not a laptop, it's a higher end desktop. > It has been a complaint for sometime now, that the various flavors of > Ubuntu, all seem to assume > everyone is running it on a laptop and loads up a raft of drivers that > are never used by a desktop > system or server. > Speaking for myself one of the first things I unload after an install > are the wireless, disk and battery management > garbage, and Network Manager, and disable the Bluetooth stuff. > > Craig > > > On 08/05/2010 02:08 PM, Jim wrote: > >> A year or so ago I had the same or very similar symptoms. >> >> From memory I resolved it by setting the boot parameter i8042.reset(=true?) >> That resets the i8042 keyboard controller subsystem at boot time. >> >> You can set it in /boot/grub/menu.lst. >> >> I can't check further specifics now as the laptop suffered a terminal >> experience under the wheels of a car. >> >> Cheers >> Jim >> >> On 06/08/10 04:43, Fabio Marconi wrote: >> >>> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu >>> better. >>> Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ? >>> Tanks in advance. >>> >>> ** Changed in: ubuntu >>> Status: New => Incomplete >>> >>> >>> > -- keyboard/trackpad hang on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399650 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
