Major Ubuntu problems

[Scott Henson]

Raymond wrote:

>Installed Ubuntu-5.10 on Dell Demention 4500; unit has 80g of storage,
>512m memory.
>
>Unit continually freezes; mouse will erratically jump around screen from
>time to time.
>
>Help please.
>  
>

Ive seen this problem before.  It seems to happen most with P4's. 
Basically you have a kernel installed on your system that is able to run
on any ia32 system.  But, I have found that on some P4's it runs like
crap and you get the behavior your experiencing.  To fix this you need
to install a 686 kernel.  You can do this by installing the linux-686
package(if you have a pentium 2, 3, or 4, or linux-k7 if you have any
athlon).  This should make your system perform as you expect it.