On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:09:04AM -0500, Chris McCormick wrote: > I get a definite crackling sound on startup as well. I'd assumed it was an issue with my local machine, but I guess not. Me too, on redhat 7.2 with pygame 1.3 and python 2.1.2. Is there a way to turn off the volume during initialization, and then turn it back on afterward? -- Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS