I have this problem on my Linux box: * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1236: No soundcards found... FATAL: Error running install command for snd_via82xx [ !! ] * Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ] * Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ] It goes away if I change [/etc/modprobe.conf] post-install snd-via82xx /usr/sbin/alsactl restore into post-install snd-via82xx sleep 1; /usr/sbin/alsactl restore and run modules-update. # uname -a Linux jeroen 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #2 Sun Jan 15 22:57:58 CET 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux # cat /proc/meminfo | head -n 1 MemTotal: 515816 kB
you neglected to post `emerge info`
jeroen ~ # emerge info ________________________________________________________________________________ cfg-update 1.6 : Building checksum index... (takes a few seconds) done! ________________________________________________________________________________ Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/shared/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl alsa also apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline recode scanner sdl slang speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
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should be fixed in latest version of udev.
Test w/ udev-103 and reopen if you still have problems.