Re: sound, mice and thunderbird

[Steve Reindl <sreindl@apci.net>]

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 15:21, Steve Reindl wrote:
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>>After a recent cd upgrade to fedora core 2 on my desktop, I noticed 2 
>>very strange behaviors.
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>>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).
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>Glad to...  psmouse.proto=imps
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>>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.
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>KVM:  IOGear = good  ,  Belkin = bad
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>There is one "gotcha" about running Firefox 0.9, Mozilla 1.7, and other
>very recent releases from Mozilla Foundation. The Netscape Security
>Services (NSS) module with all the SSL/TLS support has been upgraded
>from v3.8 to v3.9. This upgrade involves some non-trivial changes to its
>API and to the crypto algorithms it supports. As a result, the FIPS
>140-1 certification for NSS v3.8 (certs #247 and #248 under the
>Cryptographic Module Validation Program - CMVP) are not valid for NSS
>v3.9. "Who gives a rat's flyin' patootie?", I hear you mutter. Uncle
>Sam, that's who. Government users of Mozilla products are prohibited
>from using any releases based on the uncertified NSS v3.9 in the conduct
>of their daily duties. And that's too bad because Moz 1.7 has some nice
>new features.
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>--Doc 
>Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
>Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2197.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
>"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
>                         -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
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Thanks Doc. That fixed the problem. BTW, my KVM is a MasterView CS-114 
plus, for those who keep track of such things.

Steve

I'm not quite sure what the plans are for the O'Fallon SILUG meeting 
this Wednesday. It can't be at the O'Fallon Library though, and I won't 
be there, early anyway, because I have a mid-term in Sociology that 
evening. (fun, fun, fun). I believe the St. Louis Bread Company at 
Greenmount Road, was mentioned. Discuss .......

Stephen D. Reindl, AAS(ET), A&P, Licensed Real Estate Agent, CCNA
Fedora Core 2 kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 on Athlon XP 2000+ whitebox
Gahhhh :-P

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