I had frequent short freezes on Xubuntu 10.10. The patch from the Glasen
PPA (note: only one 's') fixed my problems . There is a howto here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes (I know it's posted
somewhere above but it took me a while to find it, so I might as well
save others some
i have the same problem on a fresh gutsy setup. when i unplug the cable
applications have about a 30 second start delay. as soon as i plug the cable
back in everything works as expect. this is very annoying because i use a
laptop.
this should be fixed as this is out-of-the box behavior.
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