>> "Kristopher" == Kristopher Johnson <nosleep@bellsouth.net> wrote: Kristopher> Does anyone know what it's doing here, whether it's Kristopher> important, and whether there is some way to either make it Kristopher> work better No, not at all. Kristopher> or to turn it off completely? This is something I can do. On boot time, I do #!/bin/sh mkdir /tmp/.sockets/ chmod a+rwx /tmp/.sockets/ touch /tmp/.sockets/audio0 Ciao, Martin