Hi David Thanks for your response. It was the only one I received, which was a bit disappointing to me. I know a fair bit about hardware and Windows,
but almost nothing about Linux. I believe that some virtual handholding will be necessary for educators who want to set up an Edubuntu lab on their own. IRC is not an easy option for me, partly because my employer blocks it at work, but I will try again. I had a bit of trouble getting the dial-up Internet connection to work on Edubuntu with an old modem, but then the smp kernel installation you suggested worked without a hitch. System Monitor now shows four lines (why?) for the two processors. Which processors are covered by the 686 kernel? Is it 64 bit or not? When I initially installed the 64 bit Edubuntu on our new server, all went well until I tried to boot a client. It complained that it could not execute 64 bit code. I really have difficulty imagining a use case where the *clients* are all 64 bit machines, at least for a few years hence. When I mentioned it on the list, there was a deafening silence, but fairly soon it was announced that the problem was fixed in Dapper Flight 2. Maybe it was a known bug; I am not yet adept at searching the bug list or filing a bug report. I expected someone might just tell me what the situation was, and how to help myself in future. Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, which was spot-on for my smp problem. I have not had an opportunity to see how much difference it makes. It would be nice if smp worked OOB in Edubuntu. Hendrik Boshoff On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:37:11 +1100, David Symons wrote: Thanks for your post - it was of great interest. On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:41 +0200, Hendrik Boshoff wrote: > Secondly, I need to know whether the second CPU is used at all. How > can I find out? When you open the System Monitor (Applications -> System Tools) look for >1 non-flat lines being plotted (I think 4 for dual-processors with the smp kernel)? If not, have you installed the smp kernel (sudo aptitude install linux-686-smp)? -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
