xubuntu

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 21:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 21:30 -0400, Tom Holroyd wrote:
> > I just switched to Xubuntu 7.04 on my IBM Thinkpad G40 Laptop and it's
> > dropping keystrokes! I never had that problem with Fedora. I switched to
> > the lowlatency kernel and that helped but did not fix the problem. Is
> > this an atkbd issue, or is there perhaps some other beastie out there
> > turning interrupts off? More to the point, since this is a Fedora list,
> > what is it in Fedora that does this right?

A long time ago, I ran into this problem with a T41 and Fedora.  The
problem turned out to occur only when I used a particular streaming
audio client.

Unfortunately, I don't recall what that software was, but the principle
is relevant.  Are you running any "real-time" apps when the problem
occurs?

> 
> You might have more luck on a Ubuntu list. Asking "why does Fedora do
> foo correctly" isn't the kind of question one is used to seeing. "Why
> does Xubuntu do foo incorrectly" is more likely to provoke a response,
> but of course this isn't the place to ask.
> 
> poc
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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