Hi all, I've been playing the new game ut2004 on my Fedora ccrma box. This game uses OpenAL for 3d sound which uses ALSA to route the audio through my on-board Nforce2 sound module. It sounds very good, however sometimes (not everytime) when I stop the game and check "ps aux" I notice esd is running and I know it usually doesn't run so it must be starting for the game. Should this be running at all since I'm using ALSA and OpenAL? If not, should I just remove it? I'm not really clear about what function esd actually serves. TIA Rick B