Well, things are working again (whew!) I'm not sure what the ultimate cause of this 'bad' make.conf was, but here's the lines (scattered throughout the file) that I needed to rem out to get things working again.
(a) What's wrong with these, and (b) How could they have got cobbled? # PS1=\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\] # LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s # KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=DCOPRef(konsole-6502,session-1) # KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-6502,konsole) - steve I'd not been fiddling with any of these lines, and in retrospect I doubt that the ALSA stuff was related - it was just that I ran emerge directly after that. ========================================================= http://www.commarc.co.nz (This e-mail has been scanned by MailMarshal)
