tried alotta things but nothing made a diff...
no sound yesterday no sound tomorrow no sound

alsaconf:
founds nothing - no pci & no isa

kernel:
/boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r4
(with built-in alsa & via8233 module)

lspci:
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation K7VT6 motherboard
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-


dmesg:
Linux telephony interface: v1.00
ixj driver initialized.
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.10rc1 (Mon Sep 12 08:13:09 2005 UTC).
via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.
Please try dxs_support=5 option
and report if it works on your machine.
For more details, read ALSA-Configuration.txt.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.5, from 5 to 3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
ALSA device list:
#0: VIA 8235 with CMI9761 at 0xe000, irq 19
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2


/etc/modules.conf:
# VIA 8322
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-via82xx index=0 dxs_support=5
# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0


alsamixer:
shows found via 8235
then turned master pcm etc on (with root)


modprobe via8233
/ via82xx /
snd-via82xx /
... /
etc /
and so on
did not work

still no sound
system bell works

emerged all needed stuff before - latest versions for gentoo-sources

mail me solutions and i'll love u
thanks folks

Do I understand correctly that you compiled the alsa driver into the kernel, and not as a module? Because compiling it into the kernel would be a Bad Thing. Anyway, did you follow the instructions in the Gentoo ALSA Guide?

alsa oss and via modules are built-in in kernel

the alsa guide @gentoo doesn't help

emerged new alsa-driver, utils, etc
still no-sound

lsmod
empty

omerta linux # cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
VIA 8235 with CMI9761 at 0xe000, irq 19


omerta ~ # /etc/init.d/alsasound start
* Loading ALSA modules ...
* Loading: snd-card-0 ...
FATAL: Module snd_via82xx not found. [ !! ]
* Loading: snd-card-1 ...
FATAL: Module snd_mpu401 not found. [ ok ]
* Restoring Mixer Levels ...
* No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card!

Did you emerge ALSA drivers too??? The Gentoo ALSA guide clearly warns that this is big mistake! Read the ALSA guide again. Make sure you have only <M> next to everything related to ALSA and your soundcard when you configure the kernel with menuconfig. This is really all in the guide, which I think you really need to carefully read again.