Comment 9 for bug 83301

I'm getting this problem with both the AMD64 version of herd 3 and the i386 version of herd 4 after installing on a Compaq V3118AU.

I don't know if it's a related problem or not, but while this is happening I'm also getting sound looping when the gdm login screen appears.

I've found an alternate solution to killall esd: if I boot into the console from grub, then exit, I can log in successfully without doing anything else, and additionally, audio doesn't loop.