I just finished running 'emerge -uD world' and everything seemed to go okay. At least in the end it seemed to. I did have some troubles with spamassassin and a couple of other strange dependencies which were not dealt with automatically, but google and archives of such lists as this helped in those areas. But, now I am having all sorts of strange trouble with alsa.
When I rebooted I found that my old alsa setup was not working. There was nothing in dmesg about alsa but I saw an alsasound error zoom by on bootup. I couldn't read it unfortunately. So I ran alsaconf again figuring that would take care of things but it did not. I got the expected offer of ens1371 but then I was asked if I wanted to adjust /etc/modules.d/alsa or such but not with the correct module, snd-ens1371, but instead something like snd-*** and liblow. It then shot up a brief error, too fast to read again, and then exited. No alsamixer of course. It now does not give me this, or I would give a more exact quote, but it still gives an error and offers no sound. I can modprobe for snd-ens1371 and adjust the mixer manually, but I cannot get any sound to work at boot and am not sure where to begin. I tried editing the /etc/modules.d/alsa file manually but that did not help. Any ideas? What am I missing? Thanks in advance, Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
