Ok. I am in the process of replying to Barry's questions but I think I REALLY need to know the answer to a couple of things to proceed. 1) How can I get a dmesg for clients? I see some sort of error message for sound shooting by when booting thin clients, but I can't find any logs anywhere. That is very problematic. WHERE are errors logged for clients using LTSP? I tried adding: SCREEN_02 = shell (as suggested by some of the HOWTo's as a troubleshooting step) in lts.conf but I wasn't able to get a prompt by hitting F2 once I rebooted. I don't know why lts.conf doesn't honor it. 2) ESD doesn't appear to run unless I do: esd -port 16001 &. Then when I do ps aux | grep esd I see: ja 8729 0.0 0.0 2948 480 ? Ss 10:53 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps ja 9256 0.0 0.1 3216 1568 ? SL 10:55 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -nobeeps root 11614 0.0 0.1 3216 1780 pts/1 SL 11:12 0:00 esd -port 16001 root 11860 0.0 0.0 2884 820 pts/0 S+ 11:13 0:00 grep esd However when I do: netstat -an | grep 16001 I don't see anything. I feel like the client isn't able to connect to the sound server, but I can't figure out where to gather more information. Hope this looks familiar to someone. Thanks for all of your collective help! John <div>On 11/14/06, Petre Scheie <<a href="mailto:petre@maltzen.net">petre@maltzen.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Actually, if possible, keep the discussion on the list. Questions about sound come up frequently, and the more discussion there is on the list, the easier it will be for people to find answers when searching the archives. Petre Barry R Cisna wrote: If you > like email me off list and i will help in more detail. _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>