recomended Alsa version for an AWE64?

[Adam Myrow]

Well, hearing how once people get it working, everybody seems to be quite
pleased with Alsa, I've been trying to get it to compile.  I am using
Slackware Linux with kernel 2.4.19 and trying to build Alsa 0.9.0-RC3.
The drivers aren't compiling and giving a string of errors having to do
with conflicting definitions and such.  I am trying to use a Soundblaster
AWE64.  I know that this card has been around for awhile so I was thinking
that maybe an older version would be more likely to build.  Is there a
particular version that is known to work well with this card?  Otherwise,
I can provide the rather long list of warnings and errors I am getting and
go from there.  I'm doing this so I can use full duplex with Speak Freely.
I had found a hack to sort of get full duplex to work with the kernel
drivers, but it would generate a lot of record overrun errors and lengthy
pauses.  Any ideas welcome.