This bug reports the problematic after effects of bug 22107 which requested new ebuilds for alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, alsa-tools, alsa-oss. ALSA_CARDS="cs46xx" After upgrading all alsa packages to 0.9.4 and rebooting there was no sound. The /etc/init.d/alsasound script complained on boot that it could not locate module snd-cs46xx. Also, I could not modprobe snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss either since they also could not be found. Typing alsamixer it gave the following error message. alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory When I downgraded to alsa-driver-0.9.3c and restarted the alsasound init script I had sound and was able to modprobe above the mixer and oss modules and also alsamixer was working. So, it can be perhaps narrowed down to that package. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://194.83.57.7/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 3dnow avi cups encode gif jpeg mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb alsa berkdb slang readline aalib svga java mysql X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl cdr acpi acpi4linux apache2 dvd fbcon imap maildir nptl sse tiff usb xml -oss -apm -crypt -libg++ -mikmod -nls -spell -gtkhtml -gdbm -arts -tetex -bonobo -tcltk -guile -gpm -esd -gnome -qt -kde" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j3" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox distcc ccache"
This is to inform you of the progress of the bug. The new version of alsa-driver (0.9.4-r1) now gives sound and alsamixer now loads fine too so those problems are solved. However the problem of loading mixer and oss modules still remains. I have the following in my /etc/conf.d/local.start. modprobe snd-mixer-oss modprobe snd-pcm-oss With alsa-driver-0.9.3c this worked fine and allowed me to save volume and mixer settings. However, after installing 0.9.4-r1 and rebooting I get the error below. modprobe: Can't locate module snd-mixer-oss modprobe: Can't locate module snd-pcm-oss Failed to start local. I'd be grateful if this was addressed as volume control and preservation of settings is very useful to have.
You have -oss in your USE flags. Change that to "oss" and re-merge alsa-driver if you want OSS emulation.
