Unique alsa sound issue

[IllusiveTruth]

Firstly I apologize for posting a sound issue(as if there aren't already enough) but I can't seem to find a solution

alsaconf found and configured my ALC888 fine under the hda-intel drivers,
and any program that I can emerge with the USE="alsa" flag ( Mplayer, PulseAudio ) works fine w/ audio,
but if I cant use the USE="alsa" flag ( Wesnoth, VirtualBoyAdvance ) then the program works but it give me the error "no audio devices installed" and there is no sound.

Here's my lspci if it helps...
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00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 430 (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (rev 11)
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
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I added alsasound to the default runlevel,
and set the snd-hda-intel module the start at boot... Still no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you...

[Sadako]

wesnoth appears to use sdl, so make sure you have libsdl emerged with alsa in USE too.

If it's only a couple of applications which wont work, then the problem is with those applications (or a lib they use) and not alsa.

You could try alsa's oss emulation (you need it configured in the kernel, though).
If it's enabled, you can make good use of /etc/portage/package.use and emerge just a couple of problematic packages with oss support.
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[IllusiveTruth]

[quote="Hopeless"]wesnoth appears to use sdl, so make sure you have libsdl emerged with alsa in USE too.

If it's only a couple of applications which wont work, then the problem is with those applications (or a lib they use) and not alsa.

You could try alsa's oss emulation (you need it configured in the kernel, though).
If it's enabled, you can make good use of /etc/portage/package.use and emerge just a couple of problematic packages with oss support.[/quote]

Thank you for the reply,

I have libsdl compiled with alsa support... still no luck,
it seems that every program without the alsa tag or a dependency with the alsa tag wont detect my audio device...