# Masked pending removal on Nov 23. Use games-fps/tremulous instead of
# games-fps/quake3-tremulous and games-fps/quake3-cpma instead of
# games-fps/quake3-osp.
I removed all alsa from kernel
unmerged everything alsa
did as you said with ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" in make.conf
put the module in autoload
then emerged alsa things ~x86
removed /etc/asound.state