I have a Presario 2197CA with an AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ with a max speed of around 2ghz. FC1 was very snappy on it. When I upgraded to FC2 I noticed it was much slower (I use KDE). I had always thought KDE took a step backwards, but lately I began playing with cpuspeed, which is installed and turned on by default with FC2, and I realized that cpuspeed is the problem. cat /proc/cpuinfo reports the minimum cpu speed for my processor *at all times* when cpuspeed is running. After I killed it, cpu speed jumps immediately to its max. A different power/speed monitor/daemon, powernowd (suggested by someone on this list) worked much better, actually doing dynamic cpu speed setting, as it (and cpuspeed) is supposed to. cpuspeed is either broken or someone at FC2 set it wrong so it always keeps things running super slowly. I haven't tried to find cpuspeed info or howto yet, but thought folks might like to know about this in case they too think that FC2 and/or KDE is "slow". -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
