I stay away from Kubuntu now. That galloping fan unnerves me. Every time I log in I wait patiently, thinking - this will be the time that 'speedstep' kicks in and relaxes the CPU to a gentle whisper, as Ubuntu and win XP do. But it never happens.
I've trawled the web looking for a solution. One kind forum member suggested:
"Check out http://www.ubuntuguide.org And look at the CPUFreq section, perhaps there's something about the Frequency scaling in your KDE...."
I went to that section and followed all the directions for setting 'ondemand' power management. Unfortunately it didn't make any difference. There seems to be something about Kubuntu that prevents anything but maximum perfomance mode on a pentium M laptop with speedstep. I think I'll stick with Ubuntu on one partition and maybe try openSuse with KDE instead of Kubuntu on the other.
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