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Article #63Re: alsa - driver .. problem compiling
From: Rasmus Bøg Hansen
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:00
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, noel wrote:
> Hello
>
> and thanks for any previous replies to my posts here,
>
> Now I have had difficulty installing the emu10k1 driver so gave up and am
> trying the alsa install.
>
> I executed "./config" command after untarring the driver to /usr/src. I
> get a problem "failed". Probably missing
> "/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h " or something very similar.
The documentation says to run ./configure, but I don't know if it matters.
> (yes I have all the libraries installed which the gcc requires)
>
> according to the documentation for the alsa driver .. I quote:
> ==========================================
>
> " If your ALSA drivers do not compile correctly and tell you
> things about ``version.h'' or other
> header-files that cannot be found, this can mean that
> you do not have
> the kernel header files. Take a look at the
> kernel-HOWTO, unpack a recent kernel
> in /usr/src and issue a make config. "
>
>
> Fair enough - but How does one do this??
As the documentation says:
cd /usr/src/linux
make config
Just accept the default choices.
If you do not have the kernel source installed, it should come along on
the distro. On Redhat you would do a 'rpm -ivh kernel-source-$VERSION',
depending on which version of the kernel comes along.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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