alsa-base 1.0.8-4ubuntu4 (ia64 binary) in ubuntu hoary

ALSA driver configuration files
 This package contains the ALSA initscript and various
 configuration files for the ALSA drivers.
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 For ALSA to work on a system with a given sound card,
 there must be an ALSA driver for that card in the kernel.
 Linux 2.6 as shipped in kernel-image packages contains
 ALSA drivers for all supported sound cards in the form
 of loadable modules. For either Linux 2.6 or Linux 2.4
 a custom alsa-modules package can be built from the
 sources in the alsa-source package using the make-kpkg
 utility (available in the kernel-package package). Some
 pre-built alsa-modules packages are available in the
 Debian archive. Please read the README.Debian file for
 information about loading modules.
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 This package includes configuration files whose effect
 is to prevent hotplug and discover from loading OSS
 driver modules. If you want OSS driver modules to be
 loaded by hotplug or discover then you must either edit
 the relevant configuration files or purge (not just
 remove) this package.
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 ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
     http://alsa.sourceforge.net
 OSS is the free version of the Open Sound System.