Sorry, forgot to add that last night a new kernel was installed with no change regarding this problem:
luis@ordenata:~$ uname -a Linux ordenata 2.6.24-15-generic #1 SMP Fri Apr 4 03:48:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Sorry, forgot to add that last night a new kernel was installed with no change regarding this problem:
luis@ordenata:~$ uname -a
Linux ordenata 2.6.24-15-generic #1 SMP Fri Apr 4 03:48:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux