> In the case of some drivers (such as intel hd audio) I have found the > userspace drivers to be far superior to the kernel modules which gave > poor sound quality, incredibly low volume even when turned fully up, > and frequent distortion.
using the alsa-driver package makes sense to get more recent drivers (that's why it exists). But the mentioned snd_intel8x0 in the kernel should work very well. ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list