"Ricardo Campos" <corez23@hotmail.com> writes:

Is there a way of stopping this unruly sound daemon?

killall esd, apt-get remove esd and install alsa (but you really want 0.9.0 and it's still a pain to build just now). For less nasty solution, try man esdctl -- MJR I work for this clever Internet developer ==> http://www.luminas.co.uk/