366 MHz listed as 91.9? Maybe that's why linux is so slow...

bleargh · 08-30-2004, 09:53 PM

well i'm dual booting windows xp, wouldn't it be noticeable under that as well?

amosf · 08-30-2004, 09:58 PM

I would suggest checking the cpu speed with windows as well, that would tell us a lot... You may need a third party utility to check cpu speed tho?

bleargh · 08-30-2004, 10:37 PM

XP's system properties reports 363 MHz. is that good enough? it certainly seems 4 times faster...

amosf · 08-30-2004, 10:56 PM

okay, getting somewhere at least. I don't know much about how the linux kernel does the cpu_freq thing. But maybe there is some gui tool in the linux you are using that deals with power saving modes... Maybe it's a kernel thing - what sort of kernel and what modules (like cpu_freq) are likely to be compiled in... I've never had a laptop and had to deal with this sort of issue.

luwigie · 08-31-2004, 10:46 AM

This just has to be a bios thing if even knoppix boots this way. See if you can change your front side bus in your bios to 133 mhz (I think that's what that proc runs at).

bleargh · 08-31-2004, 11:18 AM

the regular bios settings program at startup has very few options. however, there is some program called PS2.exe that supposedly changes some things. i will look into it.

here are some related:
http://zurich.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/t...4-03/0378.html
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pi...er/014466.html

is there a program that can be run under windows and linux to get a benchmark-type measurement of processor speed to see if it is really running differently or if it is just reported wrongly?

bleargh · 08-31-2004, 11:21 AM

about ps2.exe:

Quote:

Traditionally IBM PCs (at least siblings from the PS/2 family) don't do the configuration via BIOS menus. Instead they use a configuration utility which runs on top of the Operating System. So far so good but what do you do if such a configuration utility is not available for your favorite Operating System?

I see! I will try that when I get home.

bleargh · 09-05-2004, 12:18 PM

I've tried using the ps2.exe program to change the speed, but haven't figured out which option does it. Here is a list of the options:

http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/PS2-ref.txt

*Sigh* There are a few other posts about this online, but with no answers.

orange400 · 09-05-2004, 12:50 PM

KDE is pretty memory hungry, yes, but only the more modern versions. The one that comes with woody debian is light, and runs 110% to my approval on my 233Mhz laptop with 64MB RAM. I believe that debian is powered by KDE 2, but I'm not sure.

bleargh · 09-05-2004, 01:17 PM

Fluxbox is slow, too.

bleargh · 09-05-2004, 01:44 PM

Hmm.

CPU MHz 363.966

Either one of the changes I made to the ps2.exe program (speed, pcibuspower, power mode), or pressing Fn+F11 did it. Doesn't seem any faster, though. I guess it was just a misreport?