During the drivers installation phase there is no facility for installing sound card info. I find this quite odd since sound is as ubiquitous in computing today as ethernet and TCP/IP. The failure to not allow us to configure sound at the outset forces us newbies to go into the daunting task of recompiling a kernel which I have yet to do successfully as something always seems to get mucked up!!
This is REAL shortcoming for Debian and I assume sound configuration will be part of the base modconf come release 2.2?????? By the way I have used both the brute force kernel recompile/install secquences out of the HOWTO's and the Debian Kernel-Package approach, both to dismal results.
