> I started my Debian's experience with Squeeze and ended with Jessie. > No problems with alsa so far. I cannot tolerate systemd and other > non-Unix way concepts that they adopted, so instead of updating to > Stretch I switched to Gentoo. I must say that Gentoo is more time > consuming thing but its flexibility and the level of possible > customization is just amazing.
Same here. ALSA never was a problem w/ Debian. -- Even on testing and ever before the "SystemD". So look at your kernel config -- all the drivers are in the kernel. Sthu.

