Why is this so hard to understand? No, his answer was a put down, but I swallowed that because I thought I needed to reword my question.

In my first post, I made allowance for compiling alsa. I'm still ready to do that, but -- please don't miss this -- ALSA CANNOT BE COMPILED WITHOUT KERNEL HEADERS. Now, does anybody know where I can get them for the 2.4.20-xfs kernel? They didn't come with the CD, AFAIK, and no Debian site offers them, etc. Are they archived somewhere on a Knoppix-specific site? Can someone who knows about Knoppix please tell me where the support is for this kernel?

If you tell me I have to compile a new kernel from scratch to fix this mess, then I say it's time to stop the lie that "Knoppix is Debian for newbies." I'm not fond of being rude, but no one seems interested in answering my question.