So, as you may now, I'm very new to Sabayon and fairly new to Gentoo, but have used other distros over the years. I'm still trying to get a handle on this "kernel compiling" thing, but am very willing to learn. What I'm trying to do right now is compile the ALSA drivers I downloaded from the alsa-project site so my ALC268 will work. The thing is, when I try to compile, it says that ALSA is built into the kernel. I read the gentoo-wiki about recompiling the kernel, and just got done recompiling after changing the make.conf. I took out "alsa" from the USE="" section (as well as some other things... it runs quick now!), but I'm still getting an error saying that ALSA is built in.
How do I take ALSA out of the kernel? Is there a better way to do this that I haven't found yet?