PCLinuxOS 2010 on the HP2133 - almost works out of the box

[PsynoKhi0]

Currently running PCLinuxOS 2010 with KDE on a 1.6GHz/1024x600 HP2133.
Surprisingly snappy once you reach the desktop, though login is a bit sluggish (I guess because of the caching).
Either way I'm impressed.
Almost everything worked out of the box including wireless (the b43 module ships with the distro) even though I installed the minimal version (KDE MiniMe).
The padlock modules are also loaded automatically.

Now for the tweaking:
One thing that wouldn't work is CPU scaling. Turns out they load the "e_powersaver" module, which for some reason never scaled down from 1.6GHz.
To solve this, I ran as root

nano /etc/modprobe.preload.d/cpufreq

commented out e_powersaver and added acpi_cpufreq on a new line, and rebooted. I can't really remember if I had to manually install cpufrequtils prior to this, but the package might be required if the file is empty when you try to edit it.

The other tweak was to add

Option "PanelSize" "1024x600"

to xorg.conf, otherwise the desktop would occasionally appear larger than the screen.

While you're editing xorg.conf, you might want to comment out SWCursor to prevent flickers from your mouse pointer, though be warned that it will appear garbled on external displays.

Attaching a screenshot, with almost standard desktop + custom wallpaper from an excellent Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note: 1024x600 Wallpaper collection

[Meins321]

thanks for sharing +1 Linux distro to test out on it for me