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On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:51:37 -0700
Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:28 AM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > Good luck, Good Hunting!
> 
> 
> James,
> 
> Thank you for your tips.  I tried to reproduce the problem on the same
> hardware using a different OS (xubuntu 12.04).  The problem did not
> occur on the different OS.  Therefore I rule out hardware problems.
> Do you have any gentoo-specific suggestions as to the source that I
> can try?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Chris
> 
You did say phonon was installed. If so, I'd run qdepends all phonon to see what it depends on and what depends on it - should help you figure this out. 

qdepends and a number of other helpful scripts are part of the portage-utils - very useful