2.6 sound problems

Hey, im having massive problems getting sound working in the 2.6 kernel. Both of my computers running gentoo just won't produce sound. If I rollback to the 2.4.25 kernel, modprobe the same drivers (emu10k1 for the desktop nm256 for the laptop) it works like a charm.

I have alsa built into the kernel, and the thing that really bugs me is I'll go into proc and everything will be screaming that i've done everything correctly. But no sound.

Any help?