I tried to make a 2.6-only-system with the gentoo-dev-sources and had to find out that it doesn't provide the needed alsa-scripts. I'm missing the following files, maybe there are more: /etc/init.d/alsasound /etc/modules.d/alsa Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: Please add the files to the ebuild.
alsa-utils provides those files the kernel only provides the driver (i.e. alsa-drivers)