Hi again, folks -- ...and then David T-G said... % % I've been using kaudiocreator for a few days and have ripped and encoded ... % over it will not even rip anything, complaining "unknown protocol: file" % in the popup window and telling me "ERROR 3: couldn't create slave" at % the command line. Well, grip will rip and encode, so it's not a function of the hardware. I've rebooted again but nothing changed; it still tells me in window where I started it at the shell that kded is running, that kdeinit has a communication error with the launcher, and that it couldn't create a slave. I prefer kac over grip because of the interface, so I'd really love to get it fixed. TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!