The latest alsa-lib causes the sound to malfunction in the flashplayer browser plugin. I tried various videos on youtube.com in both firefox and konqueror but there is no sound. Downgrading to alsa-lib-1.0.13 fixes the problem. This is the error message from the terminal. ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:1189:(_snd_pcm_plug_open) Unknown field hint ALSA lib pcm.c:2109:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gen too-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.7 Last Sync: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /et c/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperm s strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--hash-style=both" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/binary" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --for ce --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/local/overlays/toolchain_overlay /usr/local/ xeffects/trunk /usr/local/berkano-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib alsa alsa_cards_emu10k1 alsa_cards_intel8x0 aotuv apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus djvu dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc encode expat ffmpeg fftw flac fortran g d gdbm gif glitz gpm gtk gtkhtml hal hashstyle iconv imagemagick input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerne l_linux lame libg++ lirc_devices_leadtek_0010 mad mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl npt lonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 q uicktime readline reflection samba screen sdl session smp spell spl ssl tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_fb dev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis xml xorg xpm xv xvid xv mc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RS YNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157992 ***
