> Has anyone any advice on getting audacity working on Gentoo? Every time I 
> start it I get error messages about the sound i/o system and host not found. 
> Googling around the problem appears to be that my set up uses Alsa and 
> Audacity uses OSS. Audacity looks for /dev/dsp but it does not exist. I 

Then you need to look at your alsa setup in /etc/modules.d/alsa  While
alsaconf can configure this, a manual edit, then an - update-modules force
will re-generate /etc/modules.conf

/dev/dsp is setup on boot when the device nodes get make by coldplug/udev,
or by devfs, if you're still using that.

Bob
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