Help with Realtek ALC650 sound

[Tim Wood]

 Hi,
I upgraded my m/b to an Epox 8K5A2 with the Via KT333 chipset but 
including the VT8235 Southbridge (normally part of the KT400) with a 
RealTek ALC650 Codec (AC97).

Realtek's website includes  driver source for the Alsa-0.9.0rc5 
(alcsound.tar.bz2). I'm running the 2.4.20-k7 kernel. Initially I 
downloaded the deb source and then the source from kernel.org.
Both times I placed the kernel source in /usr/local/src and left the 
driver in ~/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc5.
When I attempt to compile (./configure) it I get an error "The file 
/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/version.h does not exist" - 
nor does it. There is a version.h in 
~/alsa-driver-0.9.0rc5/alsa-kernel/include

At one time I thought of building my own kernel and find 
/usr/include/linux contains version.h showing  a #define UTS_RELEASE 
"2.4.19" - I'm not clear on what to do about that. I did install the 
kernel-package.

From comments I have seen elsewhere alsa-modules-2.4.20 contains 
support for the ALC650. Whilst it is not available as a deb, is this 
available somewhere else?

Is any AC97 compliant codec covered by any AC97 driver?

I don't make much use of sound but would like to get it working.

Any suggestions as how best to proceed would be very welcome.

Tim

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