Sound and KMail

[Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net>]

Hello all,

I've had a strange occurence on my Beige G3/266: first, the sound module 
dma_sound (or whatever its official name is) crashed on me -- my sound went 
from okay to extremely staticky...so, I thought, restart the X server...but 
that just crashed the rest of the X server, and then crashed the rest of the 
machine because the X server just drops you back to the shell if there's any 
problems. The shell is where I get the message about the dma_sound repeating 
over and over again. So, I reboot, fsck does its thing, leaves me a message I 
can't read in the console since the text is still funky. I then reboot again 
into a 2.2.18 kernel ( the kernel module that failed on me was from a 
benh-2.4-8pre7-ben0 or thereabouts kernel) so I can read the text. But, no 
dice, no message. But I go to check my mail, and now my Inbox on KMail is 
empty. It wasn't before...all the rest of my mail is just peachy. I have 
several folders setup for various mailing lists, and they still have mail. 
Just not my Inbox. 

Can anyone help? I'm running testing, if that's necessary to know...

Thanks!

Russell