so I installed Gentoo and everything is working except sound. I'm using pipewire and have its alsa and pulse backends enabled. however, no sound card is detected. aplay --list-devices shows no sound cards and pipewire only shows dummy output. I'm using openrc and the distribution kernel (gentoo-kernel-bin)

EDIT: figured it out! the guides currently recommended a very minimal initramfs called µgRD which gave me trouble. I said fuck it and switched to dracut and everything works now


#gentoo
@0x4d6165 dammit I don't have the "there is no sound" Linux meme referencing Virtual Insanity anywhere
@0x4d6165 i think some intel and realtek audio chips need firmware blobs to work?
@[email protected] I have linux-firmware installed hmm
@0x4d6165 hm. maybe see what driver it's using in lspci?
@0x4d6165 are the services running? in rc-status --user

pipewire, pipewire-pulse, and wireplumber have to be
@0x4d6165 Does
lspci | grep -i audio
report an audio device?