Re: [Alsa-user] Aureal Vortex & ALSA 2.6.x compile problem

[Bill U. <un...@ph...>]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> > I tried out the new 1.0.2a driver, and once again i am faced with this
> > message during configure:
> > 
> > 
> > root@wintermute:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.2a# ./configure
> > --with-cards=au8820 --with-sequencer=yes
> > 
> > [...]
> > checking for directory with kernel source...
> > /lib/modules/2.6.2-rc2-mm1/build
> > checking for kernel version... The file
> > /lib/modules/2.6.2-rc2-mm1/build/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
> > Please, install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
> > or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
> > sources (default is /usr/src/linux).
> 
> You must compile and use the kernel first.


To be more specific, the build needs the kernel headers and perhaps the
kernel configuration. These are supplied with most distributions. In
Mandrake, it is the kernel-headers rpm that needs to be installed.
You might as well also install the kernel source. This is not the
.src.rpm for the kernel, which happens to be the source from which the
kernel was actually compiled, but the kernel-source rpm (which is really
bare, unpatched, and not what was used to actually compile the kernel,
kernel source installed in /usr/src.
Modules must slot into the kernel in the right place and they can only
do so if they know how the kernel is set up. This changes from kernel to
kernel.