[Feisty] Installer is very slow when changing pages

Not all of this is straightforwardly fixable: in order to avoid massive duplication of effort and divergent bugs between the alternate installer and the desktop installer, the latter is implemented as much in terms of the former as possible, and this involves running external programs from time to time which is probably what's causing the CD to spin up and down. However, I don't understand why clicking on the timezone map would do this, nor why typing characters in the keymap test box would do this.

I'm gradually working on optimising the new partitioner.

OK I have gone back to the installer as I wanted to reinstall the laptop, as I have problems with many aspects of Ubuntus operation (wireless, eth0, etc.) Among other things I am having kern.log and syslog filled with garbage:

<timestamp> ubuntu kernel 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111 <etc>

every second.

I thought this was due to problems in the latest kernel release, but booting the installer I just checked kern.log and found it being flooded too.

I am writing this from my workstation, which has a KVM switch to allow me to access my workstation, my firewall/server, and two laptops (one via port extender, the other - the one with the problem just by plugging in the KVM plugs). Well, I boot up the laptop and bring it onto my desk screen

tail /var/log/kern.log -f

and my screen (and the open laptop next to it) fills with "11111". I switch the KVM to my workstation to report my problems, and presto the laptop now shows a series of "legible" errors:

Jun 27 19:28:01 ubuntu last message repeated 172 times
Jun 27 19:28:01 ubuntu kernel: [ 714.452000] ACPI Error (evgpe-0711): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [20060707]

If I switch the KVM back the "111111" messages continue. If I unplug the screen I get the [ 714.... messages again.

There is a brief section of "171717171717" the moment the monitor tries (unsuccessfully) to match the resolution of the laptop

The installer is nice and snappy - no problems as long as I keep my external screen unplugged.

This has nothing to do with the installer, but something with the video adaptor. Now I just need to find out where to look

Martin

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