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