Ubuntu kernel patches

[Constantine Evans]

The problem appears to be with the configuration (686 had the problem 
before 386), so I am trying to figure out what changed around that 
version. I don't actually plan to use the kernel. Perhaps I should be 
asking on the -devel list?

Constantine

Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote:
> Constantine Evans wrote:
>> I've been trying to work around bug #36014, since it makes my laptop 
>> very slow and is apparently not considered important. One person noted 
>> that the problem only started on the 386 kernel with version 21 of 
>> Ubuntu's patches. However, I can't find out how to get earlier 
>> versions of the kernel packages, or even the patches themselves. 
>> Surely these are kept somewhere?
>>
>> If I could get the specific versions where this problem started, I 
>> might be able to figure out what change caused the problem. Does 
>> anyone know where these might be kept?
>>
>> Constantine
>>
> 
> Instead of going back to previous versions, you could try using the 
> latest kernel and ubuntu patches.
> 
> I fixed my dapper problems my recompiling the latest kernel. To get the 
> latest bleeding-edge kernel you can do what is suggested in the wiki
>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelHowTos
> 
> Using git you would copy the latest source including patches by:
> 
> git clone 
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-2.6.git 
> ubuntu-2.6
> 
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> Regards,
>  Saru
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