No sound for notifications, except those of gtk/gnome.
Created attachment 91517 [details] emerge --info
same here Portage 2.1.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-suspend2-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r2 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M 800MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -ftree-vectorize -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -ftree-vectorize -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/tmp/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://85.25.128.62 http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en fr ja zh" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/gentopia /usr/portage/local/layman/liferea_overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl /usr/portage/local/layman/hanno-xgl" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa avahi avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bogofilter bzip2 cairo canna cjk cli crypt cups daap dbus dlloader dri drm eds emboss exif firefox foomaticdb freewnn fuse gaim gif glitz gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gstreamer010 gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iproute2 ipv6 irda isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libnotify libwww logrotate mad matroska mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg musicbrainz nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdk session spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis xattr xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev input_devices_wacom kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_fr linguas_ja linguas_zh userland_GNU video_cards_i810" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Gossip-0.13 has a patch to fix this. More info at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347670 Wait for a new release, or apply that patch in portage should fix the bug.
Okay... we'll wait for a new version upstream.