The package alsa-utils must be emerged because "The alsasound initscript is now provided by alsa-utils instead of alsa-driver for compatibility with kernel-sources which provide ALSA internally." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge eflite 2. 3. Actual Results: Don't remember actuall text. However, an error indicates alsasound is missing Expected Results: successful emerge emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040605-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 x86_64 4 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt dvd dvdr encode esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I fixed the init script. Thanks for pointing this out. We don't actually DEPEND on alsa-utils as this works with oss drivers as well...