I tried the latest versions of smixer and madplay on a new install from the amd64 livecd and they both worked (at least with alsa/2.6). It looks like it's safe to add amd64 or at least ~amd64 to their keywords. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. I'm not in my 64 bit system right now, but if necessary I can get the emerge info.
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