Multimedia :: ALSA install on DSL 1.4 seems broken

I did a hd install of DSL 1.4 and followed the instructions for ALSA install (I found that using Linux alsa instead of dsl alsa at Lilo bootprompt seemed to work). All of the modules are installed into directories but modprobe can't see them. Modprobe gives an error that it can't find any of the alsa modules.