> At this stage I'm doing > # emerge --update --ask --deep --verbose --newuse --tree world > as setting alsa on is asking quite few items to want to recompile.
>>OK, stop where you are. Hands off the 'Enter' key ;-) Hi Holly - To late ... I'd already hit enter ... When I looked at my system afterwards I had sound ..!! Everything seems to work OK at the moment. Obviously recompiling with USE=alsa worked. I am however going to work through your very informative post. I'm a genkernel user for no other reason than I just have not made the time to build a kernel manually (Young children play havoc with time management). Regards and thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.13/47 - Release Date: 12/07/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list