I installed it tonight. It went pretty well. I overwrote my MEPIS partition. The only oddity I noticed was that my WAP key didn't seem to be accepted by the wireless configuration thingy (it said something like "Unable to Connect"), but it worked fine. Dunno what's up with that...

I updated the system and installed several applications without incident. It's pretty easy to use.

My T41 has a 1.7 GHz CPU but the various applications that show the CPU speed say that it's running at 600 MHz. Any idea what I need to do to fix that? It does seem to be rather pokey, so I think its reading the correct speed.

Also, the Alt + Backarrow keystroke does not cause the browser to go back to the previous page. Is there a way to enable that?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Scott.

K -> System Settings -> Network Settings

Administrator Mode button, enter password

Click on "ath0" Network Interface and hit the Configure Interface button

Enter your ESSID and WEP key (hexadecimal in my case). Hit OK.

You should be in business after a brief delay.

Cheers,
Scott.

[link|http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html|Download Google Earth]. Kubuntu defaults to placing "GoogleEarthLinux.bin" on the Desktop. To install it you need to do the following:

K -> System -> Konsole Terminal Program

cd Desktop

chmod +x G*.bin

./GoogleDesktopLinux.bin

I accepted the defaults and it installed and started right up.

Without [link|http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/12/how-to-install-google-earth-for-linux/|this HowTo] I wouldn't have figured it out, even though I knew it was an issue of marking the file as an executable rather than a data file.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who will likely continue posting Kubuntu tips in this thread for newbies like me.)

K -> System -> KSysGuard shows a display of 4 system performance parameters. I deleted the Swap display (as the swap partition hasn't been touched yet) and added a display of the CPU Clock frequency sensor. It was 600 MHz.

Running powernowd in a Konsole lists several parameters of the Pentium M processor can be adjusted. It's a little cryptic, but running:

sudo powernowd -v

(and entering the password) shows the present parameters. In my case, the CPU could run at 600 - 1700 MHz in 200 MHz steps (except for 300 MHz at the last step). I'm not sure what I did exactly, in changing the "s" option to 1 and then back to 100000 kHz caused the CPU graph to go to 1700 MHz and the Power Manager thingy on the KDE Panel to also indicate 1700 MHz.

I don't know if this setting is sticky or not. I'll revise this post if/when I learn more about the powernowd settings.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who is under the impression that powernowd is designed for AMD processors so is curious why it works at all with this Intel chip.)