beta 1 laptop install and fix

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael K. Johnson wrote:

> One possibility, especially if you were comparing to an up2date kernel
> from test1 (only a week's worth of changes, basically), would be that
> the scheduler interactivity changes that were just accepted into Linus's
> tree in the 2.6.0-test kernels were backported.  (A think-o in that
> backport is what caused the SMP instability and has now been fixed in
> the packages at http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/severn/)
> 
> We at least think we can really notice the difference.

At least on this desktop, it seems faster, but "jerky" -- operations
normally go smoothly and quickly, but sometimes they pause mid-operation for 
a second or so (Athlon 1700+, 768 megs, just running ~12 xterms, mozilla, 
and xmms)

later,
chris