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A few months ago, I bought an HP Athlon PC and installed
SuSE 9.2. The system clock took off at warp speed (about three times
normal speed). When I emailed SuSE, they told me that the BIOS does not
provide a solid real-time clock interrupt. (One side-effect of the warp
speed system clock was I could not “double click” on anything.)
They felt that they may have a fix for this problem in SUSE 10.0. It may
be that the Athlon clock fix in SUSE 10.0 is what is hindering your GTK
performance. I really hope this isn’t your problem. BTW – I have since returned to using my old 1.7 GHz PC
(assembled myself) to run Linux. I won’t be taking any chances on
the Athlon in the future; that’s just too much money to spend on a
machine that doesn’t play nicely with my preferred flavor of Linux. Michael Kahn |