Comment 3 for bug 13910

The supported software provided by Ubuntu is configured to use esound by
default, so this is only an issue when using unsupported software.

esd is configured to start when the sure logs in, and stop when they log out,
and there are good reasons for this. So far, we have not found a way to allow
these unsupported apps to coexist peacefully with the esound-based desktop audio
infrastructure, but we are open to suggestions for the future. Approaches which
involve stopping esd (auto_spawn, esd -as <secs>, etc.) are undesirable for
various reasons.