I am running a complete ~x86 system. I was using alsa-lib-1.0.8-rc1, alsa-utils-1.07 and alsa-headers-1.0.8-rc1 before I updated all three to 1.0.8. I am running 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 and 2.6.10-ck5 both comes with alsa-1.0.6. I compile my alsa drivers into the kernel instead of modules. This setup has been working fine for months. I also tried 2.6.10-morph17 which comes with alsa-1.0.8 drivers. I have tried compiling the alsa drivers as modules for 2.6.10-gentoo-r6, the modules and mixer level loaded fine. Still no sound. I tried downgrading alsa-util, alsa-lib, alsa-headers to 1.0.7 and 1.0.6. All of them gives me the same result. No sound. I have checked the /etc/modules.d/alsa and did a 'modules-update' and '/etc/init.d/alsasound restart' and also checked 'alsamixer'. Everything looks good, but no sound. I don't use any sound daemons as I have hardware mixing with audigy, so my KDE is compiled without artsd. I tried playing sound with xine, mplayer and also bmp. I also tried ' aplay music.wav '. Non of them produces any sound. I booted into windows and sound works. So its not a hardware problem. This is from my lspci: 0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03) 0000:00:0e.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 03) 0000:00:0e.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port This is my /etc/modules.d/alsa: root@homer /etc/modules.d $ cat alsa # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.4 2004/11/16 01:31:22 eradicator Exp $ # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore ## ## IMPORTANT: ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. ## ## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ## OSS/Free portion - card #2 ## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss ## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss ## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. options snd cards_limit=1 For more info follow this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=285448 Here is my emerge info: Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 9 2004, 09:50:48)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups divx4linuxdvd encode f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gif gnutls gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww live mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses network nls nptl nvidia oav oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba scanner sdl slang slp speedo spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts usb wifi xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
problem solved check http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=285448 for more details.
