Experiance from working with the email newsgroup ALSA, hopefully, this information will help the next person who wants to get answers, and not spend a week, or two, just explaining "what exactly DO you have?", or, "That isnt something in a NORMAL Distro", kind of thing
Sadly, the #debian folks are quite clear what knoppix is, except for their claim that it isn't debian. Agreed, it isn't any straightforward strain of the debian releases, it's not even up-to-date SID. What I don't get is the vehemence. One cat actually said "Knoppix stole debian." What's up with that?