> GvR> Fred has a good solution for this: >> GvR> chmod 0 /dev/audio >> Not if you still want your audio to work, eh? You didn't mention that. You complained that running the tests froze your audio driver, I believe, and that means that your audio driver is busted -- so leaving the device writable isn't gonna help much. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)