Replacement for arts that will work with KDE?

[Joseph Jones <joe@bumpycarrot.cjb.net>]

Since a recent upgrade, I have noticed artsd's resource use spiking 
unexpectedly, causing major system slow-down.

Does anyone know of a way of using esd or anything else with KDE instead 
of arts?

Many thanks

Joe

PS. For anyone who remembers, I did finally get 2.6.3 working :) Still 
don't have most of my board's onboard stuff working though :( But I 
think it's hardware related now.