after upgrade, sound card drivers and firmware won't load anymore. here's dmesg output: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> Link [LNK3] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ALSA /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.12/work/alsa-driver-1.0.12/pci/echoaudio/../../alsa-kernel/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c:46: get_firmware(): Firmware not available (-2) ALSA /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.12/work/alsa-driver-1.0.12/pci/echoaudio/../../alsa-kernel/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio_dsp.c:249: Firmware not found ! ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:08.0 disabled Echoaudio Gina24: probe of 0000:01:08.0 failed with error -2 usbcore: registered new driver snd-usb-audio downgrading to 1.0.11 solves the problem # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 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-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks keepwork metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="it" 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='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/portage/local/layman/liquidx /usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac aalib accessibility acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups curl dbus dio divx dlloader dri dssi dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif glitz gltt glut gnome gnustep gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq ieee1394 imagemagick imlib innodb input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jack java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux ladspa lash libg++ libwww linguas_it mad mhash mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mng mono motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl osc oss pam pcre pdf perl php png posix pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real realmedia reflection rtc samba samplerate sdl session slang sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell spl ssl startup-notification svg symlink tcl tcltk tcpd tiff tk tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vcd vhosts video_cards_none video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis vst wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows xface xml xmlrpc xmms xorg xosd xpm xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
here are a couple of links related to this problem: Subject: 1.0.12 breaks firmware loading http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg03533.html and Subject: Re: 1.0.13 and indigoio http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg04182.html
Does 1.0.13 work? Because that's what's going stable now.
oh, great I tried alsa-1.0.13 in depth and I can say they are stable for me!
1.0.12 is no more present for a while now.
alsa-driver-1.0.12 isn't anymore in portage tree
