> I emerged alsa-driver again with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" and it still > wants to downgrade in a emerge -uD world -p so should I create the > /etc/portage/portage.unmask file?
Well... since you run without ~x86 ordinarily this is to be expected. If you don't want to downgrade alsa-driver after you've emerged an ~x86 version then you should use 'emerge -UD' instead of 'emerge -uD' because emerge will want to downgrade to the latest _stable_ version otherwise. If you always want the most recent version of alsa-driver you can create /etc/portage/package.unmask and add 'media-sound/alsa-driver' as a new row in it. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net
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