I sent this out to other groups as well.  I'm not sure it's a gentoo 
problem, but maybe someone here will know what to do.

I'm still tinkering around with my gentoo distro.  I can't seem to get
sound or cd player to work, yet.

This is on a 2.4.4-ac9 kernel.  I don't really think the kernel is a
problem.  I have the same kernel module options as on Sybil Caldera) 
or Manrake 8.0, and both sound and cdplayer work.

The default module entries are

esssolo1
usb-uhci
tulip
agpgart
parport_lowlevel
ide-scsi


Sound is esssolo1.  I have sound=m and esssolo1=m selected for kernel
build.  I get the same messages during boot of any of the distributions
(see below), but xfce doesn't produce sounds on gentoo.

2001-05-19 14:19:04.292633500 <6>solo1: version v0.18 time 22:06:36 May 18
2001
2001-05-19 14:19:04.292640500 <6>PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:09.0
2001-05-19 14:19:04.292647500 <6>solo1: joystick port at 0xe801
2001-05-19 14:19:04.292653500 <7>solo1: ddma base address: 0xe000


For the ide-scsi stull, this is what I get.  I have the same kernel entries
as for Sybil.  cdrecord --scanbus runs normally, just like on Sybil.

2001-05-19 14:43:06.511972500 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel
0, i
d 0, lun 0
2001-05-19 14:43:06.511990500 <4>Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel
0, i
d 1, lun 0
2001-05-19 14:43:06.513008500 <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw
xa/f
orm2 cdda tray
2001-05-19 14:43:06.513019500 <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
2001-05-19 14:43:06.514045500 <4>sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/44x cd/rw
xa/form2 cdd
a tray
2001-05-19 14:43:06.535581500 <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device
sr(11,0)
2001-05-19 14:43:06.556923500 <4> I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0


Any suggestions where I might look?  

I don't know which of the /dev/... entries are actually used for the sound
card.  /dev/sr0&1 exist for the ide-scsi stuff.  Both of my cdroms can
mount and read iso9660 stuff ok, and I presume cdrecord would work ok, but
I haven't got anything to burn at the moment.


-- 
Collins Richey
Denver area
gentoo system