well, i followed the directions for the alsa-drivers from the gentoo alsa configuration manual.
still no sound. i think i am getting closer.....hehe..
alsaconf works until last step the alsa configurator, here i hit ok and get
Running modules-update...
Loading driver...
Setting default volumes...
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /etc/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1163: No soundcards found...
even though i picked my card from list in the last step.
if i run "/etc/init.d/alsasound start" i get
* Loading ALSA modules ...
* Loading: snd-card-0 ...
WARNING: Error inserting snd_seq_device (/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r6/alsa-driver/acore/seq/snd-seq-device.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg).................etc..........etc
followed by a whole list of errors inserting devices
if i run "modprobe snd-cmipci" i get the exact same set of errors