Hi, just want to let you know I had to downgrade to alsa-utils-1.0.10 in order to get snd_intel8x0 to work. There was another with the same experience in the forums (and many seemingly unsolved posts with the same module), and I felt it deserved a bug report. This occurred with all kernel versions I tried, and all three common alsa setup methods (in kernel, modules, alsa-drivers). My forum and a few others that appear related are here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-476766-highlight-.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3422085.html#3422085 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3422089.html#3422089 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3422092.html#3422092 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3422096.html#3422096 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3422101.html#3422101 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3422110.html#3422110 I can't find the original one which suggested the downgrade. Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-susp end2-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/termin fo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/d istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/sci" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi afs alsa apache2 avi bamba berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 cli cl isp crypt cups dlloader dri eds emacs emboss encode esd exif f77 ffmpeg foomatic db fortran gcj gdbm gif gimpprint ginac gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml i magemagick imlib isdnlog java jikes jpeg kerberos lcms libclamav libg++ libwww l irc mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses new-login nptl nvidia oav ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss other_var1 other_var2 pam pcre pda pdflib perl php p ic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime quotes readline real reflection sane s dl session spell spl ssl subversion svg tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype- fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l video_cards_nvidia vorbis wmf xine xml xm ms xorg xprint xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ke rnel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGU AS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please open a new bug describing the problem, don't simply rely to forum posts. Also, please provide information like which kind of alsa driver are you using, in-kernel or alsa-driver, and you need to reproduce the problem with gentoo-sources, rather than suspend2-sources.
Although I hope this bug will be reopened, let me add that I have the same experience with alsa-1.0.11 and intel8x0. I could not make alsa-driver-1.0.11 to work. No sound at all, although all modules load fine and all controls seems reacting OK. I know that there was a change with dmix between 1.0.10 and 1.0.11, where in the latter it is supposed to work 'out of the box'. So I have removed my /etc/asound.conf out of the way, but no help. Just downgrading to 1.0.10 returns the sound. I have tried it both with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 and 2.6.16-r9 (amd64 platform)