Debian_sound_config

Debian Sound Troubleshooting and installing CA0106
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sudo aptitude install hardinfo

For more info about hardware

droidzone@debian:~/android$ cat /proc/asound/modules
 0 snd_hda_intel
droidzone@debian:~/android$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

which shows that CA0106 has not been found.

droidzone@debian:~/android$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xe3200000 irq 16

Compile kernel modules
wget http://alsa.cybermirror.org/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.25.tar.bz2
wget http://alsa.cybermirror.org/lib/alsa-lib-1.0.26.tar.bz2
wget http://alsa.cybermirror.org/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.25.tar.bz2
wget http://alsa.cybermirror.org/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.26.tar.bz2

Extract all

cd alsa-driver-1.0.25
./configure --with-cards=ca0106 --with-sequencer=yes
make
make install

cd ../alsa-lib-1.0.26
./configure
make ; make install

cd ../alsa-firmware-1.0.25
./configure
make ; make install

cd ../alsa-utils-1.0.26
./configure

Errored during config
checking for panel.h... no
configure: error: required curses helper header not found

Again config...Another error
checking for new_panel in -lpanelw... no
configure: error: panelw library not found

This was due to another missing lib:
sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev

Now it configures fine.

Make gives an error however:
/bin/bash: xmlto: command not found
make[2]: *** [alsactl_init.7] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/droidzone/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.26/alsactl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/droidzone/Downloads/alsa-utils-1.0.26/alsactl'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Solved by:
sudo apt-get install xmlto

Note: A large list of packages will be installed when you install xmlto (depending on your own system of course).