diff --git a/capplets/sound/ChangeLog b/capplets/sound/ChangeLog
index c0361e5b5..c06a53213 100644
--- a/capplets/sound/ChangeLog
+++ b/capplets/sound/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-07-23  Bradford Hovinen  <hovinen@ximian.com>
+
+	* sound-properties-capplet.c (apply_settings): Make sure ESD gets
+	killed if it's supposed to
+
 2001-07-20  Chema Celorio  <chema@celorio.com>
 
 	* RELEASE : 1.5.0
diff --git a/capplets/sound/sound-properties-capplet.c b/capplets/sound/sound-properties-capplet.c
index 23b5fda8a..9c3b240aa 100644
--- a/capplets/sound/sound-properties-capplet.c
+++ b/capplets/sound/sound-properties-capplet.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ apply_settings (Bonobo_ConfigDatabase db)
         if (enable_esd && gnome_sound_connection < 0)
                 start_esd ();
 
-	if (!enable_esd && gnome_sound_connection >= 0)
+	if (!enable_esd)
 		system ("killall esd");
 
 	/* I'm not going to deal with reloading samples until later. It's