sound card

[Tamas Hegedus <hegedus@med.unc.edu>]

Hi,

I have an integrated intel sound card: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High 
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

On Fedora I could install it after downloading the source code from 
alsa-project.org:
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-hda-intel

I have problem doing it on debian/lenny.
I do not know what else I should install. It seems I also need 
pulseaudio, alsa plugin for pulseaudio...

If I try to start amixer:
ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf) Cannot open shared library 
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so

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I do not find a page how to track down problems with sound card 
installation, what I need... (e.g. it seems that if I need pulse audio 
then configuration files has to be created manually...)

Any suggestion how to do soundcard installation&troubleshooting?
For non-expert :-)

Thanks a lot in advance,
tamas