[relnotes] [Fedora Project Wiki] Update of "Docs/Beats/PackageNotes" by PaulFrields

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  == PC Speaker Enabled ==
  
- PC speaker is enabled by default. Some users don't prefer this. There are two ways to circumvent it:
+ The PC speaker is enabled by default in this release, but can be circumvented in a number of ways:
  
-   * Reduce its volume to a acceptable level or completely mute the PC speaker  in alsamixer with the setting for "PC Speak".
+  * Reduce its volume to a acceptable level or completely mute the PC speaker in `alsamixer` with the setting for "PC Speak".
-   * As root user disable the PC speaker system wide by runing the following command in a console. 
+  * As the `root` user, disable the PC speaker system-wide by runing the following command in a console. 
-     
-     {{{
+   {{{
-     modprobe -r pcspkr ; echo "install pcspkr :" >>/etc/modprobe.conf
+     su -c '/sbin/modprobe -r pcspkr ; echo "install pcspkr :" >>/etc/modprobe.conf'
-     }}}
+ }}}
  
  === Cdrtools Replaced By Cdrkit ===
  
@@ -23, +22 @@

  
  === EM8300 Drivers Default to ALSA ===
  
- The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities and kernel modules (em8300, kmod-em8300-* packages) has changed from OSS to ALSA to follow upstream, where the change was made already earlier.  However, there are numerous apps that support the em8300 but still expect to find it in OSS mode; users of such applications can use the audio_driver=oss option for the em8300 module in modprobe.conf to get the card to use OSS for audio.
+ The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities and kernel modules (`em8300`, `kmod-em8300-*` packages) has changed from OSS to ALSA to follow upstream.  However, numerous applications that support the em8300 still expect to find it in OSS mode.  Users of these applications can use the `audio_driver=oss` option for the `em8300 module` in `/etc/modprobe.conf` to make the card use OSS for audio.
  
- === Gaim Renamed As Pidgin ===
+ === Gaim Renamed to Pidgin ===
  
  The '''Gaim''' instant messenger has been [http://www.pidgin.im/index.php?id=177 renamed] to '''Pidgin''' to avoid possible trademark infringement issues.
  




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