diff --git a/alsa-core.cabal b/alsa-core.cabal
--- a/alsa-core.cabal
+++ b/alsa-core.cabal
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-Name: alsa-core
-Version: 0.5
-Copyright: Bjorn Bringert, Iavor S. Diatchki, Henning Thielemann
-Maintainer: Henning Thielemann <alsa@henning-thielemann.de>
-Author: Bjorn Bringert <bjorn@bringert.net>, Iavor S. Diatchki <iavor.diatchki@gmail.com>
-Category: Sound, Music
-License: BSD3
-License-file: LICENSE
-Homepage: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ALSA
-Stability: Experimental
-Build-Type: Simple
+Name:          alsa-core
+Version:       0.5.0.1
+Copyright:     Bjorn Bringert, Iavor S. Diatchki, Henning Thielemann
+Maintainer:    Henning Thielemann <alsa@henning-thielemann.de>
+Author:        Henning Thielemann <alsa@henning-thielemann.de>, Bjorn Bringert <bjorn@bringert.net>, Iavor S. Diatchki <iavor.diatchki@gmail.com>
+Category:      Sound, Music
+License:       BSD3
+License-file:  LICENSE
+Homepage:      http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ALSA
+Stability:     Experimental
+Build-Type:    Simple
 Cabal-Version: >= 1.8
 
 Synopsis: Binding to the ALSA Library API (Exceptions).
@@ -18,13 +18,18 @@
 
 Source-Repository head
   type:     darcs
-  location: http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/alsa-core/
+  location: http://code.haskell.org/alsa/core/
 
 Source-Repository this
   type:     darcs
-  location: http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/alsa-core/
-  tag:      0.5
+  location: http://code.haskell.org/alsa/core/
+  tag:      0.5.0.1
 
+Flag pkgConfig
+  Description: use pkg-config if it works
+  -- http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/170
+  Default: True
+
 Library
   Build-depends:
     extensible-exceptions >=0.1.1 && <0.2,
@@ -36,5 +41,8 @@
     Sound.ALSA.Exception
 
   GHC-Options: -Wall
-  Includes: alsa/asoundlib.h
-  Extra-libraries: asound
+  If flag(pkgConfig)
+    PkgConfig-depends: alsa >= 1.0.14
+  Else
+    Includes: alsa/asoundlib.h
+    Extra-Libraries: asound
diff --git a/src/Sound/ALSA/Exception.hs b/src/Sound/ALSA/Exception.hs
--- a/src/Sound/ALSA/Exception.hs
+++ b/src/Sound/ALSA/Exception.hs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 import Data.Typeable (Typeable, )
 import Foreign.C.Error (Errno(Errno), ePIPE, errnoToIOError, )
 import Foreign.C.String (CString, peekCString, )
-import Foreign.C.Types (CInt, )
+import qualified Foreign.C.Types as C
 
 import Prelude hiding (catch, show, )
 import qualified Prelude as P
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 checkResult_ :: Integral a => String -> a -> IO ()
 checkResult_ f r = checkResult f r >> return ()
 
-checkResultMaybe :: String -> (CInt -> a) -> (CInt -> Maybe a) -> CInt -> IO a
+checkResultMaybe :: String -> (C.CInt -> a) -> (C.CInt -> Maybe a) -> C.CInt -> IO a
 checkResultMaybe f ok err x =
    if x >= 0
      then return (ok x)