Thanks to 'nealbirch' and Bret Holcomb for suggestions. The solution was that I needed to emerge the alsa-driver (as well as rebuild kernel with only M support). I wanted to be sure there wasn;t something overlooked before rebuilding kernel. The quirky part is how I overlooked the distinction between alsa-driver and whatever the other driver is that 'make modules modules_install' makes. I had it in my head that the selection in 'make menuconfig' built the 1 and only sound driver needed for the card and that alsa was built on top of that so I just skipped the step in alsa docs where it says env ALSA_CARDS='ens1371' emerge alsa-driver So after doing that it plays beautifully.
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