No sound in SL on two completely different machines

Hello. I have no sound in Linux on two different machines. One of them is an Acer C204tmi tabletpc/subnotebook. I have tested many things. Alsa is running without any problems and in every other application i have sound, but not in sl. I have forced SL to use ALSA, but it also dont work. When i press play, just nothing comes. I use gentoo Linux and Kernel 2.6.25 with alsa from the kernel. When i play two wave files with aplay i can hear them at the both time. So mixing is also working.

The other machine is a myself build quadcore with 9600gt, ddr3 and so on. The Soundcard is an Asus Xonar D2X and there i have exactly the same problem. Sound is working in every other application but not in sl. On both machines i dont have any soundserver as esd or pulsaudio activated. That should not be the problem.

Thats the output of the actual version running with forced alsa on my acer notebook:
http://www.nopaste.com/p/aHlBwhBqc

Hope someone could help. Have talked till now with some people who use gentoo linux and sl and noone could help.

Thanks

SL seems to have problems with the combination Gentoo + pure ALSA

What I did, was emerge ESD (ebuild is called media-sound/esound) and start it (sudo eselect rc start esound, sudo eselect rc add esound if you want to have it started every time after booting) (ESD works on top of ALSA, so you don't need to stop the alsasound deamon)

This gives me a slight delay in sound playback, but at least it works. Other solutions, like aoss (OSS-to-ALSA wrapper) have given me even more delay, so I sticked with ESD.

Thanks. Sound is working now. esound was emerged already (seems to be a dependency from something). Just started it (/etc/init.d/esound start) and configured sl to use esound:

## - Avoids using the ESD audio driver.
#export LL_BAD_ESD=x

## - Avoids using the OSS audio driver.
export LL_BAD_OSS=x

## - Avoids using the ALSA audio driver.
export LL_BAD_ALSA=x


Hope the devs will fix that in future. The problem is in sl and not in gentoo or alsa(everything else works without any problems).

Another positive comment for this "fix". I got the sound working with ESD and finally I can hear other people on SL Voice too. I can't talk yet, though .