sound, mice and thunderbird

[Steve Reindl <sreindl@apci.net>]

After a recent cd upgrade to fedora core 2 on my desktop, I noticed 2 
very strange behaviors.

The first is that what used to be a very stable MS Explorer Optical 
mouse, which now will scroll down but exhibits random behavior when 
trying to scroll up. (Doc, you posted a boot option here to fix that, 
any chance you could post it for me again so I can be lazy). I guess the 
difficulty lies in the fact that the mouse is attached to my KVM and 
apparently the kernel doesn't handle the KVM well. I did apt-get 
dist-upgrade which upgraded the kernel to 2.6.6-1.435.2.3. If you have 
this mouse problem, don't do the kernel upgrade. My mouse became totally 
unuseable. I am running 2.6.5-1.358 for now.

Second on the list is sound. Everything worked perfectly under FC1. 
After the FC2 install the sound was inoperable. I have been fighting it 
for weeks now. I finally wised up and went to 
http://www.alsa-project.org and searched on my sound card a C-Media 
cm8378. The proper configuration lines for insertion into 
/etc/modprobe.conf were there as well as the other necessary commands to 
run to write the mixer files. If you have sound problems, go there and 
search for your sound card. Just remember, where they say to put stuff 
in /etc/modules.conf substitute /etc/modprobe.conf. Oh yeah, in case you 
haven't figured it out, my sound now works. (happy dance)

Last, in conversation with a few people about the recent DHS/US-CERT 
thrashing of Internet Exploder, some windows admins were wondering about 
using Thunderbird as a replacement for OE. From everything I'm seeing on 
my Windows box, most lusers should feel no pain. My installation of 
Evolution kept crashing when I would use keyboard shortcuts to delete 
and expunge the SPAM so I'm now using Thunderbird on the Fedora side of 
the house too. Very nice.

That is all

Steve



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