On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:14:29 +0100
Marian Grigoras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a MSI K7T 266 mainboard with on-board sound, reported as VIA AC97
> Audio Controller.
> In fact the <sndconfig> program from RedHat finds it, but says it is not
> supported and indicates that ALSA has a driver for this. And indeed ALSA
> has a driver called via686a from version 0.5.9.
I'm not sure that's the right driver...
> So I tried to install the last stable version from ALSA: 0.5.12
> First the ./config did not work ok because of the different directory
> structure of RH72 (it reported that version.h can not be found) but I
> managed to solve this by a symbolic link, so now the config works ok.
But your 'solution' caused problems later I think :)
> The actual problem that I have is with the <make>. It starts compiling
> and only issues a warning for the use of malloc.h (see bellow). But it
> stops on error at sound.c. This is the output that I got - I hope it
> helps you more than it helped me :)
>
>
> [root@localhost alsa-driver-0.5.12]#make
> make[1]: Entering directory `/misc/alex/alsa-driver-0.5.12/kernel'
> gcc -DALSA_BUILD -D__KERNEL__ -O2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
> -march=athlon -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer
> -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -I.. -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c sound.c
> In file included from ../include/driver.h:66,
> from sound.c:23:
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should
> never use kernel-headers system headers,
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but rather
> headers from an appropriate kernel-source package.
The above seems to be the problem...
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:3:2: #error Change
> -I/usr/src/linux/include (or similar) to
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:4:2: #error
> -I/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:5:2: #error to build against
> the currently-running kernel.
> In file included from ../include/driver.h:84,
> from sound.c:23:
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:3:2: warning: #warning The Use of
> linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h
> make[1]: *** [sound.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/misc/alex/alsa-driver-0.5.12/kernel'
> make: *** [compile] Error 1
> [root@localhost alsa-driver-0.5.12]#
>
>
> I looked under /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ and there is no 'build' directory
> or link.
>
> Is there something missing in my installation? Or how can I get past it?
I think you must install the sources and headers of the kernel you're
running. There are .rpm packages for that on your CD's.
> Thanks,
> Marian Grigoras
Hope this helps,
-Frans
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