alsa-base for Debian
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   --- Users of ALSA 0.9 series from version 0.9.0beta10 or before ---

 The driver names of ALSA 0.9 have been renamed. They used to include 
 "-card-" in their driver filenames, but these have now been removed.
 You may need to edit your configuration file, /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9.
 If your driver configuration includes "-card-":
 Example:
   alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16.
 A fixed example is:
   alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16

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1) ALSA configuration file for Debian GNU/Linux is located in
   /etc/default/alsa.

2) A configuration example for version 0.9 of ALSA is in 
   /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/examples/modules-0.9.conf, which should be
   installed into /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9.

3) /etc/init.d/alsa doesn't stop ALSA driver by default if there is an
   application which uses sound devices. If you want to stop the ALSA driver
   forcibly, you can invoke /etc/init.d/alsa with force- prefix.
   For example, if you want to restart drivers forcibly, the proper command
   would be: /etc/init.d/alsa force-restart

4) If you are using a kernel that contains devfs support, you need to enable
   it, and mount it under /dev to use ALSA, or you can create the ALSA device 
   files under /dev/snd/ by using mknod.

5) If you'd like the modutils file (usually called /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9)
   to be generated by debconf, then add a '### DEBCONF MAGIC' line to the
   file and run 'dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base'.

-- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:53:38 +1100

