Because Dapper is a stable release "updates will, in general, only be issued in order to fix high-impact bugs." You can learn more about the Stable Release Update policy at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates . Therefore I don't believe that new ALSA drivers will likely be backported.
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