Alsa setup is also a bit of a PITA.All I did was to switch the kernel module from OSS to ALSA and emerge ALSA packages
(alsa-lib, alsa-oss). My USE flags contain both alsa and oss and it works like a charm.
My audio chipset is a Terratec Maestro (snd-es1968).
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