I would strongly advice you to pay attention to this part of the manual carefully, before you try and attempt, installing the drivers.
You must turn on sound support soundcore module.
Run ./configure script.
If you have ISA Plug & Play sound card, use --with-isapnp=yes switch.
If you want sequencer support, use --with-sequencer=yes switch.
If you do not want OSS/Free emulation, use --with-oss=no switch.
If you want turn on debug mode use --with-debug=full switch.
If you want debug sound card detection try --with-debug=detect switch.
Run make install
Run the ./snddevices script to create new sound devices in /dev directory. Skip this step, if you have a kernel with the DEVFS support.
Run modprobe snd-card where the card is the name of your card.
If you have a ISA PnP sound card you need to first run the isapnp program from isapnptools package to initialize your sound card. You can also use the native ISA PnP support by using the --with-isapnp=yes configuration switch, in which case you do not need the isapnptools package.
You can also look at the utils/alsasound file. This script is designed for the RedHat distribution, but it can be used with other distributions which use System V style rc init scripts.
| Caution |
All mixer channels are muted by default. You must use a native mixer program to unmute appropriate channels,for example amixer from the alsa-utils package |
One or two examples are here to give an idea as to how it is done.
./configure --with-isapnp=yes --with-debug=full
./configure --with-isapnp=no --with-seq=yes
If you enter ./configure -- help ,This is what you will get