esd and gdmflexiserver

[Brandon Kuczenski <brandon 301south net>]

When I am running Gnome, the only way I am able to run multiple programs 
that talk to the sound card concurrently, I must run the esound daemon 
(/usr/bin/esd).  However, if another user then logs in via a separate gdm 
session or via gdmflexiserver, she is unable to access the sound card.

Is there a workaround, or does anyone on this list have good ideas for a 
workaround, that would allow multiple users to simultaneously access the 
sound device?  This might be better asked in some sort of esound-devoted 
forum, but according to the README file in the source, "Development on 
Esound stopped several years ago."

Anyone have any ideas?

Regards,
Brandon