diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 4dc88c616..f9fdeb10e 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
  - updated linux24 - and fixed the i2c-patch (incl. i2c-west for PowerPC) and
    fixing agp support for the apple north-bridge
+ - updated alsa-driver and alsa
 
 *) 2003-08-25 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
 
diff --git a/package/base/alsa-driver/alsa-driver.desc b/package/base/alsa-driver/alsa-driver.desc
index 6f65c9b6d..80b5b30cf 100644
--- a/package/base/alsa-driver/alsa-driver.desc
+++ b/package/base/alsa-driver/alsa-driver.desc
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 0.9.4
+[V] 0.9.6
 [P] X -----5---9 313.000
 
-[D] 2567614618 alsa-driver-0.9.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/
+[D] 0 alsa-driver-0.9.6.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/
 
diff --git a/package/base/alsa-driver/no_check_kconfig.patch b/package/base/alsa-driver/no_check_kconfig.patch
index 28a27cc89..d9b9e3966 100644
--- a/package/base/alsa-driver/no_check_kconfig.patch
+++ b/package/base/alsa-driver/no_check_kconfig.patch
@@ -20,18 +20,16 @@
 # 
 # --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
---- ./alsa-kernel/core/sound_oss.c.orig	Thu Feb 28 09:00:54 2002
-+++ ./alsa-kernel/core/sound_oss.c	Thu Feb 28 09:01:09 2002
-@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
+--- alsa-driver-0.9.6/alsa-kernel/core/sound_oss.c.orig	2003-06-21 09:52:37.000000000 +0200
++++ alsa-driver-0.9.6/alsa-kernel/core/sound_oss.c	2003-08-26 06:00:03.000000000 +0200
+@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@
  
  #ifdef CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL
  
--#if !defined(CONFIG_SOUND) && !defined(CONFIG_SOUND_MODULE)
+-#if !defined(CONFIG_SOUND) && !(defined(MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_SOUND_MODULE))
 -#error "Enable the OSS soundcore multiplexer (CONFIG_SOUND) in the kernel."
 -#endif
-+// #if !defined(CONFIG_SOUND) && !defined(CONFIG_SOUND_MODULE)
-+// #error "Enable the OSS soundcore multiplexer (CONFIG_SOUND) in the kernel."
-+// #endif
- 
+-
  #include <linux/init.h>
  #include <linux/slab.h>
+ #include <linux/time.h>
diff --git a/package/base/alsa/alsa.desc b/package/base/alsa/alsa.desc
index f134d58eb..3c20e88da 100644
--- a/package/base/alsa/alsa.desc
+++ b/package/base/alsa/alsa.desc
@@ -42,16 +42,16 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 0.9.4
+[V] 0.9.6
 [P] X -----5---9 196.000
 
-[O] alsa_lib_version=0.9.4
-[O] alsa_utils_version=0.9.4
-[O] alsa_tools_version=0.9.4
-[O] alsa_oss_version=0.9.4
+[O] alsa_lib_version=0.9.6
+[O] alsa_utils_version=0.9.6
+[O] alsa_tools_version=0.9.6
+[O] alsa_oss_version=0.9.6
 
-[D] 1657924049 alsa-lib-0.9.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/
-[D] 1965273705 alsa-utils-0.9.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/
-[D] 2945664467 alsa-tools-0.9.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/
-[D] 1650023784 alsa-oss-0.9.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/oss-lib/
+[D] 0 alsa-lib-0.9.6.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/
+[D] 0 alsa-utils-0.9.6.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/
+[D] 0 alsa-tools-0.9.6.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/
+[D] 0 alsa-oss-0.9.6.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/oss-lib/