Was this pitti's patch dropped by a mistake --> http://people.ubuntu.com/patches/esound.multiuser.diff ? Without it esound doesn't find the socket created by pulseaudio-esound-compat (in /tmp/.esd-$UID/).
Was this pitti's patch dropped by a mistake --> http:// people. ubuntu. com/patches/ esound. multiuser. diff ? Without it esound doesn't find the socket created by pulseaudio- esound- compat (in /tmp/.esd-$UID/).