I am a novice with respect to sound. Nearly everything works. totem plays CDs system sounds are OK
The trouble is that the cd player, gnome-cd part of gnome-media, says there is no disc in the drive (there is only one drive). I don't have many USE flags (in particular ogg, wavpack, and vorbis) since I don't really know what thes formats are. Since this is a regular CD, I looked for a wav use flag and for gst-plugins-wav, which do not exist. My make.conf has USE=" alsa dbus doc emacs esd gnome gtk guile hal java jpeg mad mp3 \ mmx mpeg png ppds scanner sse sse2 truetype X xft xulrunner" My /usr/src/linux/.config has CONFIG_SND=m CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m CONFIG_SND_PCM=m CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y Any help/advice would be appreciated. thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list