distorted sound output

I am having sound problems.  I get heavy distortion part of the time.
It may relate to:

pat@wahoo:~> esd
esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
Try -trust to force esd to start.
esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket:
/tmp/.esd/socket
The socket is not accessible by esd.
Exiting...

and:

pat@wahoo:~> esd -trust
esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
Unable to connect to UNIX socket /tmp/.esd/socket



My config:

Sound Driver: 3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.11 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux wahoo 2.4.10-4GB #1 Fri Sept 28 17:20:21 GMT 2001 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1731 at 0xd000, irq 5

Audio devices
0: ES1371 DAC2/ADC (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED INCONFIG

Midi devices:
0: ES1371

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A


I am at a loss??
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Patrick Shanahan
Registered Linux User #207535 
      @ http://counter.li.org

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