Comment 27 for bug 178896

Please cancel the second Item of this message : I could load easily
Ubuntu 9.10.
I had no additional order to print as e.g. clocksource=jiffies.
It's the first time I could do it so easily...Ubuntu makes improvements.
Thanks

Please note that due to an updating of yesterday 7/11/09, my desk
computer again could not restart as some months ago (I still have Ubuntu
8.04 LTS).

I had to reload 8.04 and modify again the starting by adding
''clocksource=jiffries''.
Now it can start, stop, and restart.

Note also that I tried to load Ubuntu 9.10 from a DVD.
I have seen the small disc Ubuntu blinking and apparently a lot of files
have been loaded from the DVD. But at the end, I got a black screen and
any attempt to do something was impossible excepted switching off the
power line.

LARCHER a écrit :
> Yes absolutely. I was at first very happy with Ubuntu. But when I
> could not update with new versions, I started to think : it's not yet
> reliable.
>
> Fabio a écrit :
>> I had a look at Windows' control panel: it points out a conflict between
>> ATI SMBus and a certain "high precision timer", which I suppose to be
>> clocksource related. This is probably a consequence of a BIOS bug, but
>> the average user will think "Windows boots and Linux doesn't, which
>> means Linux sucks". This is precisely what Ubuntu is trying to avoid...
>>
>>
>