There is a new 0.9.0_rc5 tarball on the alsa website. Apparently, it includes a gcc 3.2 fix. This might explain why I got a mismatched digest when I tried to merge rc5. I deleted the digest and it worked. A
I forgot to add that I was having build problems with the original rc5 tarball. The new one fixed the problem.
Arun: This had been fixed a few days ago. However, initially gentoo's package cache did contain a bad tarball. Could you please do the following: 1. rm /usr/portage/distfiles/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc5.tar.bz2 2. emerge rsync 3. emerge alsa-driver If this doesn't work for you, please re-open this bug.