Under RedHat I just had to compile the thing. Sure I could do that under Debian as well, but I'm trying to go the package route.
I downloaded the Alsa packages. I ran the command 'cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV audio' I run alsaconf (don't know what those values from 4-128 mean that it wants) It gets to the page, Now I'll run '/etc/init.d/alsa start' Here's the output: Loading driver: Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd no devfs available (even though using the kernel with devfs). Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50% The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably not detected correctly. What am I missing?