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!

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Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23