frustrated

[Glenn at home]

I went to /boot and did:
grep -i alsa config-2.4.27-speakup
and nothing comes back.
Does that in itself mean something useful?  i.e., there is nothing supported 
to be reported?
Glenn

You need to discover whether the kernel you have was compiled to support
alsa. Find the configuration file (probably in /boot) that matches your
kernel and do:

grep -i alsa [filename]

It would seem this is the threshold question.