I was going through the new kernel changes and there are ywo new drivers for alsa in there that I have seen alot of people asking about;
<perex@suse.cz>
[ALSA] Add emu10k1x driver

Documentation,PCI drivers,EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver
Added the new driver, snd-emu10k1x, for SB Live Dell OEM version
by Francisco Moraes <fmoraes@nc.rr.com>.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

<perex@suse.cz>
[ALSA] Add snd-ca0106 driver

Documentation,PCI drivers,CA0106 driver
Added snd-ca0106 driver for SB Audigy LS / Live 24bit boards
by James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

They must be using an older version of ALSA then.

snd-ca0106 is not new, it's just the snd-audigyls given a more generic name. (Caught a lot of people out - IIRC, the change took place in Alsa 1.0.7?)