without media-fonts/font-misc-misc, echomixer would report font error and refuse to start. After install media-fonts/font-misc-misc( provide -misc-fixed-*-*-10-*) and restart X, echomixer finally start without problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge alsa-tools with indigoio as ALSA_CARDS in a system without font-misc-misc 2. run echomixer in terminal Actual Results: echomixer failed to start with "Cannot find the font" Expected Results: echomixer can be launched After I tried several fonts with the misc suffix one by one, I found the only font need to install is media-fonts/font-misc-misc.
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/alsa-tools.git/tree/alsa-tools.spec: Requires: xorg-x11-fonts-misc Indeed. Dependency added to Portage.
Well, it is added unconditionally if the gtk USE flag is selected. I think that this dependency is too coarse. The proper dependency should have something to do with alsa_cards_something, but there is no "something" for Echo cards.