debian alsa anyway
1. get kernel source
2. untar (can by anything) 
3. make menuconfig
4. make-kpkg --revision 1 --append-to-version "-myver" kernel_image 
5. apt-get alsa-source
6. make-kpkg --revision 1 --append-to-version version modules_image (from the kernel source folder)
7. install all the deb images all should be good
8. it will make you instal alsa-base and stuff which is fine just run alsa-conf and then modconf
9. restart and you are ok


more kpkg funkyness
make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append-to-version "-brie" --revision 11 --added_patches lowlatency,preempt kernel_image modules_image