pulseaudio
Because PulseAudio can be used as drop-in replacement
for ESD you can fool GNOME into loading the PulseAudio
daemon just like the traditional ESD daemon. To achieve
this use the esdcompat script shipped with PulseAudio.
Install pulseaudio-esd : pacman-g2 -S pulseaudio-esd
Create a symlink from /usr/bin/esd to /usr/bin/esdcompat
For more information on pulseaudio
, please
refer to http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup