On Jul 2, 2009 7:03am, wayne <wayne@jawnee.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 14:15 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > wayne wrote: > > >> > >> I can confirm the exact same behavior, on the exact same set-up. > >> Sadly, I've not been able to find any solutions for it, either. > > thanks for the reply. hopefully someone has an answer.... > >> > A newer kernel is probably all that you need. > >> I can say that the problem does not exist on Jaunty with a first > >> generation MacBook, which is good. However, the performance of the RT > >> kernel in Jaunty on my set-up was poor, and so I went back to good ol' > > Jaunty, like 8.10 was fine in and of itself, you just had to go outside > of Ubuntu for your kernel (in this case I usually build my own). > > > i have been saving some emails on this list that talk about compiling a custom kernel, but 1) i have never done that 2) i am not sure if that is something i can do for 8.04 Hardy, or if it only works for newer releases? do i have to upgrade to 9.04 to build a new kernel with the latest kernel sources? > I'm fairly sure you can compile a custom kernel on any version of Linux you please. Like you, however, I have never done this, and am not comfortable doing this. It is something I plan on learning though, since it sounds like it is the best way to get the most out of any Linux system.