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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net> writes:
I have to second that. 9.3 is considerably faster for me on my laptop as well, one think to try is to disable acpi at boot time, the powersaving stuff turned on by default can really slow the machine down, because it's turning my 1.8GHz machine into a 200MHz one.
Just edit /etc/sysconfig/powersave or do not start the powersave daemon at all. But the powersave daemon should turn up the speed if it's needed - so it should be 200 Mhz while the cpu is bored and 1.8 Ghz if you give it a big job to do,
And it does that, *generally*, just fine. However, it turns it down too quickly, so that I find interactive use quite choppy. I can't *complain* about it, it's doing it's job, but either I haven't sat down and figured out how to get it to behave more like what I want. Before SuSE, I ran cpydyn and it seemed to do a better job, perhaps I just need to fiddle with it. Also, for some reason, it loses its mind from time to time and always reverts to "Dynamic" even when I almost always set it to "Performance". I wish the ACPI in my *DELL* Laptop didn't suck so badly, that's the last Dell I'll likely ever buy. -- Carpe diem - Seize the day. Carp in denim - There's a fish in my pants! Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net>