apt-get dist-upgrade Kills Sound

I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian box last week. Everything went ok, except that my sound quit working. I was not very happy about it. After doing some investigation, what I think happened was the dist-upgrade slipped alsa in to replace oss. That is fine by me, as long as it works, which it didn't. I know that alsa is nice, but it is difficult to get working, and I don't have the time to piss with it right now.

I got my sound back by doing an 'apt-get remove --purge alsa-base'. After a reboot all of the OSS modules were loaded ok and I was back to my 13G of music.

On a side note about this incident. I love Debian and Linux, and I would only encourage people to use this system. But, if things like this happen on a regular basis, normal users will not use it.