OK Our kernel is sluggish when it sees certain chipsets. The infamous 686B southbridge bug made its debut as "confirmed by the manufacturer" a little more than a week before release of 8.0. A quick hack to cripple oneself if certain chipset(s) were seen was done to prevent a potentially huge source of data corruption. Some chipsets which had not the bug get swept by the filter. Some with the buggy southbridge get missed because the signature isn't there (no autosetting BIOS, no dodge for Creative Soundcards) So, don't believe hdparm -i. If your computer appears sluggish, run hdparm -t /dev/whateverdrive and if you see like 1.68Mb/s you are in PIO mode. To get out of it install kernel22-2.2.19-10mdk where you will work without sluggishness. We are still trying to make a kernel update that handles supermount, recognizes lm_sensors, recognizes vfat, and does a good job with netfilters. kapm-idled is not a process and it doesn't suck up resources. It puts a notebook processor a little more deeply asleep and tries to save power and it also accounts for idle cycles. List courtesy is a matter for list participants. On occasion I have been sharp with people who did not research their complaints adequately, but only if I got the impression that the person was a "taker" who never contributed to the list. The participants of this list may find it a little odd from time to time that RedHat questions get asked and answered here, but those immigrants from the RH lists who ran out of flame-retardant underwear know why this is done. So whether this list remains a helpful place or becomes a flame list is up to the participants. Whether or not it remains open is a matter for the list owner. If it becomes a place where users have a negative experience, then it is not in the owner's interests to keep it open. Right now of course it is very much a place to come for help. (and occasionally read flames to mandrake from engineers who believe in much stricter standards or who want to wring their hands that the kernel doesn't compile with their favorite compiler). Civileme
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