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[thefirstm]

Relax, guys, I'm one of the maintainers of the graphics-drivers PPA and we are definitely working on this. The new version should be available in the...

[thefirstm]

After reading about "Speed Shift", I am 99.9% sure that it is just a marketing name for HWP (Hardware P-States). intel_pstate already supports...

[thefirstm]

By default, intel_pstate's HWP mode is disabled with Ubuntu Wily on skylake due to instability with certain systems. It would be interesting to see what...

[thefirstm]

This is not necessarily the case. It depends more on graphics drivers than anything else, but with the Nvidia blob, the performance is comparable. Linux...

[thefirstm]

I am pretty sure that the pixels of LCD monitors remain "lit" continuously without regard to the refresh rate of the signal. This is, in my...

[thefirstm]

I think this is a good thing. I have been using MariaDB for several months now on my laptop and on my server and it works great in both places.

[thefirstm]

There is a solution to all these problems

It starts with a "K," ends with an "E," and has a "D" in the middle....

[thefirstm]

It still can be that fast (and mostly safe) if your computer has backup power....

[thefirstm]

I just sent in the bug report. ...

[thefirstm]

When I install 310.14 I am experiencing an odd issue. For some reason, the backlight control in KDE stops working. My system (a Dell Vostro 1500) does...

[thefirstm]

I don't really find KDE to be all that bad as long as you disable or remove unneeded things like Neposuk (err, Nepomuk). It does take longer to start...

[thefirstm]

Does the laptop have an Nvidia graphics card? If it does, can you do another power test while running the binary driver?

[thefirstm]

No, DKMS is a set of scripts which automatically compiles kernel modules for newly installed kernels.

KMS is something completely different....

[thefirstm]

I have done it with 302.11 when I was testing out the new RandR functionality....

[thefirstm]

You can still do that with nvidia-settings....