FC6 on Laptop - General Issues
 

Hello all,

Anyways, I've been running FC6 on my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi (1.5G Pentium-M) for the past two months. After upgrading memory to 1.28G, I must say I'm "happy" with the results -- not ecstatic. Here are a few issues I've been running into:

• I'm currently using KDE. Whenever I run Firefox my systems seems to slow down. The problem seems intermittent. Some days are better than others. On slow days, it really gets slow. Do I need to change my Windows Manager/Browser? If so, what do you recommend? What other tweaks can I look into to speed up my system? I heard recompiling my own kernel with only necessary options will get my system running lightning fast. I'm just a bit apprehensive to go down this path.
• My touchpad is really bugging me. When I hit below the halfway point on my touchpad, my mouse thinks I want to click. Can I disable this feature and isolate mouse clicking solely to the actual buttons?
• Last but not least (but not priority), I've never really gotten my audio to work with LMMS correctly. I purchased a PCMCIA Audigy 2 ZS and now I get static instead of nothing (which is probably a step in the right direction I hope). I would highly appreciate any good advice on this issue.

Any help with the issues above would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

For mozilla/firefox/seamonkey whatever turn off IPv6, this is done by editing three files;

/etc/modprobe.conf add/edit;

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

/etc/sysconfig/network add/edit;

NETWORKING_IPV6=no

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whichever your network interface is) add/edit;

IPV6INIT=no

Disable the ip6tables service;

service ip6tables off
chkconfig --levels 345 ip6tables off

When done restart the network service; service network restart

Re the mouse pad, install ksynaptics. It handles Synaptics and Alps touchpads. It installs a applet icon when you run it that’s saved with the session so you only need to run it once.

Oh, most touchpads are Synaptics or Alps. You should see something like this:, although that’s after the driver’s been loaded.