On Sunday 11 September 2011 23:31:18 walt wrote: > Does alsa-info give any useful messages?
An encyclopaedia-full of info, among which I see "No sound servers found". > How about dmesg or syslog? Dmsg shows the hardware being set up OK; syslog nothing. > Did you keep any of the useflags from your old make.conf? No; that was the point, or part of it. I decided to remove all USE flags except hardware ones, then add back in any that turned out to be needed. Looks like you've spotted the one I need - thanks. I don't know why I didn't think of that - so easy with hindsight. I've added USE=alsa and I'm remerging world now. Let's hope I'll be able to listen to my favourite BBC Radio 3 soon! -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
