[SWLUG] Cardiff Gentoo Users

[Kris Zani]

OK have been trying the various suggestions.
USB Mouse.  I saw a debian post on the net where dmesg registered the 
fact that a mouse was connected to the usb hub so I assumed that was 
standard.  Tried the cat /dev/input/mice command.  No registered input 
from the usb mouse only from the synaptics keypad so that's obviously 
not working.

Back to that later.  Lets get the sound first.

have now compiled everything "soundy" as modules. 
Located the alsa howto on the gentoo site and followed it through. had 
some problems with alsaconf not finding my sound card properly came up 
as snd-***Error something or other in some .c file.

changed that to snd-ali5451 as this is the driver from lspci.

did the rest but still no sound.  Bugger!!

dmesg still states no sound cards found. Any ideas?
but does state some kobject_register failed for snd-**** (-17)

where ** is each of my sound modules in turn

would have attached my kernel config and my dmesg output but apparently 
none of my usb stuff is working as I don't have access to my usb pen 
drive anymore.

Never mind, gonna switch to debian or FC4.   might come back to gentoo 
on my main pc.  Less problems with a proper PC laptops, gentoo and me 
still not compatible

Cheers

Kris