diff --git a/debian/Makefile.am b/debian/Makefile.am
index 18b03f24934d0c0f36471e68749b9af3da42fc92..331727b80ffcd8e2866103f463901dbd2a92a982 100644
--- a/debian/Makefile.am
+++ b/debian/Makefile.am
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
 
-EXTRA_DIST = README.Debian changelog control copyright libao-dev.dirs\
-	libao-dev.docs libao-dev.files libao2.dirs libao2.files \
-	libao2.manpages rules
+EXTRA_DIST = README.Debian changelog control copyright libao.conf \
+	libao-dev.dirs libao-dev.docs libao-dev.files libao2.dirs \
+	libao2.files libao2.manpages rules
diff --git a/debian/libao.conf b/debian/libao.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed0a0393fd87cba365718a3a4893cefd70788d22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libao.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+default_driver=oss
diff --git a/debian/libao2.dirs b/debian/libao2.dirs
index ca32fe894e713af784f72cff0e80562daad20c2e..1ec65c1a4651db4bda2da8ae2df41153c910a9a6 100644
--- a/debian/libao2.dirs
+++ b/debian/libao2.dirs
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+etc
 usr/lib
 usr/lib/ao
diff --git a/debian/libao2.files b/debian/libao2.files
index 18da3a8f4b15cb0f945eb3696b883cc0938ad705..9fdde72d2cdcfb4d0328deab7530423231a99509 100644
--- a/debian/libao2.files
+++ b/debian/libao2.files
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+etc/*
 usr/lib/*.so.*
 usr/lib/ao/*.so
 usr/share/lintian/overrides/libao0
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 320eb0b925a30c67ae5024f2ed821e16771815b3..62d3c621f65ddeccf7199a39af0028793c0e5b68 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ install: build
 
 	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp.
 	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
+	install -m 0644 $(CURDIR)/debian/libao.conf $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/etc
 
 # Build architecture-independent files here.
 binary-indep: build install