DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Add a line to alsa package description.
To save people hours of time if their sound card isn't detected, there could be a line added to the alsa description in MyDSL that says something like "if this script doesn't work, you might have better luck with alsaconf apt-get install alsaconf, or if that doesn't work, try removing the alsa packages and using sndconfig apt-get install sndconfig) to automatically set up OSS drivers."
original here.