OK I have gone back to the installer as I wanted to reinstall the
laptop, as I have problems with many aspects of Ubuntus operation
(wireless, eth0, etc.) Among other things I am having kern.log and
syslog filled with garbage:

<timestamp> ubuntu kernel 
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111 <etc>

every second.

I thought this was due to problems in the latest kernel release, but
booting the installer I just checked kern.log and found it being flooded
too.

I am writing this from my workstation, which has a KVM switch to allow
me to access my workstation, my firewall/server, and two laptops (one
via port extender, the other - the one with the problem just by plugging
in the KVM plugs). Well, I boot up the laptop and bring it onto my desk
screen

tail /var/log/kern.log -f

and my screen (and the open laptop next to it) fills with "11111". I
switch the KVM to my workstation to report my problems, and presto the
laptop now shows a series of "legible" errors:

Jun 27 19:28:01 ubuntu last message repeated 172 times
Jun 27 19:28:01 ubuntu kernel: [   714.452000] ACPI Error (evgpe-0711): No 
handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [20060707]

If I switch the KVM back the "111111" messages continue. If I unplug the
screen I get the [   714.... messages again.

There is a brief section of "171717171717" the moment the monitor tries
(unsuccessfully) to match the resolution of the laptop

The installer is nice and snappy - no problems as long as I keep my
external screen unplugged.

This has nothing to do with the installer, but something with the video
adaptor. Now I just need to find out where to look

Martin

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