Comment 35 for bug 26859

Fabio, Ben,

I've just completed some [very preliminary] testing with Dapper. So far, I can advise that [on the Thunder K8W dual-Opteron board, at least] this bug appears to have been eliminated. [I do appreciate that Dapper uses a much later kernel, but hey, this is progress...] Basic testing shows that the installer auto-detects the 2nd [SMP] processor and the machine is configured to handle this from the outset. Intrestingly, neither uname -r, nor Synaptic list -SMP specific kernels for this release, even though it's clearly an SMP kernel, as ably demonstrated by, for example, GNOME System Monitor. I must go read the release notes in more detail...

Obviously Dapper is still at Flight-6 alpha release stage, but on the basis of a couple of hours basic GNOME/KDE app/functionality testing this is looking mightily impressive.

Am currently running the Breezy i386-SMP kernel quite comfortably on the K8W, but now looking to jump to Dapper in June, once the release is declared stable.

Not sure if either of you have been involved in the Dapper kernel development, by my thanks and appreciation to all that have!

Regards,

Clive