Prior to this point I had had some problems An error message kept saying that it could not find my Linux/version.h file. I did a 'locate' command and got three locations. I do not know what to make of all this. Ken Jones Here's what happened. ----------start first snip--------- [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# locate include/linux/version.h /usr/include/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6-i686/include/linux/version.h /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux/version.h -------so did a [configure --with-kernel=] to one of the above--------- [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# ./configure --with-kernel=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for current directory... /usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a checking cross compile... checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux checking for directory with kernel build... checking for kernel version... The file /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux/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 /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/source). /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux/version.h [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# ./configure --with-kernel=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for current directory... /usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a checking cross compile... checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux checking for directory with kernel build... checking for kernel version... The file /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/include/linux/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 /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/source). ----------end first snip------- ---------start second snip-------- [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# ./configure --with-kernel=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686 checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for current directory... /usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a checking cross compile... checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686 checking for directory with kernel build... checking for kernel version... 0.0.0 checking for GCC version... Kernel compiler: Used compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30) *** NO PREDEFINED KERNEL COMPILER IS DETECTED *** Assuming the same compiler is used with the current system compiler. *** Please make sure that the same compiler version was used for building kernel. checking for built-in ALSA... "no" checking for existing ALSA module... "yes" checking for Red Hat kernel... "auto" checking for Red Hat kernel... "no" checking for SUSE kernel... "auto" checking for SUSE kernel... "no" checking to modify of kernel linux/kmod.h... "no" checking for kernel linux/compiler.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/pm.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/spinlock.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/irq.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/threads.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/rwsem.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/gameport.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h... "no" Creating a dummy <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>... checking for kernel linux/highmem.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/workqueue.h... "yes" Removing a dummy linux/workqueue.h. checking for kernel linux/dma-mapping.h... "yes" Removing a dummy linux/dma-mapping.h. checking for kernel asm/hw_irq.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/device.h... "yes" Removing a dummy linux/device.h. checking for kernel linux/jiffies.h... "yes" Removing a dummy linux/jiffies.h. checking for kernel linux/compat.h... "yes" Removing a dummy linux/compat.h. checking for kernel linux/adb.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/cuda.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/pmu.h... "yes" checking for kernel linux/moduleparam.h... "yes" Removing a dummy linux/moduleparam.h. checking for kernel linux/syscalls.h... "yes" Removing a dummy linux/syscalls.h. checking for kernel linux/firmware.h... "yes" checking for exported symbol dump_stack... grep: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/kernel/ksyms.c: No such file or directory "no" checking for kernel module symbol versions... "yes" checking for PCI support in kernel... "yes" checking for I2C driver in kernel... module checking for firmware loader... yes checking for directory to store kernel modules... /lib/modules/0.0.0/misc checking for verbose printk... on checking for debug level... none checking for processor type... i686 checking for i386 machine type... default checking for SMP... "yes" checking for ISA PnP driver in kernel... yes checking for PnP driver in kernel... yes checking for Kernel ISA-PnP support... "yes" checking for strlcpy... "no" checking for snprintf... "no" checking for vsnprintf... "no" checking for scnprintf... "no" checking for sscanf... "no" checking for vmalloc_to_page... "no" checking for old kmod... "yes" checking for PDE... "no" checking for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask... "no" checking for pci_dev_present... "no" checking for msleep... "no" checking for tty->count is the atomic type... "no" checking for io_remap_pfn_range... "no" checking for new io_remap_page_range... "no" checking for kcalloc... "no" checking for saved_config_space in pci_dev... "no" checking for old kill_fasync... "no" checking for dma_addr_t... "no" checking for MUTEX macros... "no" Removing local linux/pnp.h. checking for driver version... 1.0.9rc4a checking for sequencer support... yes checking for OSS/Free emulation... yes checking for RTC callback support in kernel... "no" checking for HPET support... "yes" checking for Procfs support... "yes" checking for USB support... "yes" checking for PC-Speaker hook... "no" checking for kernel PCMCIA checking for PCMCIA support... "yes" checking for PC9800 support in kernel... "no" checking for parallel port support... "yes" checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... all configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating version config.status: creating Makefile.conf config.status: creating snddevices config.status: creating utils/alsa-driver.spec config.status: creating utils/buildrpm config.status: creating toplevel.config config.status: creating utils/alsasound config.status: creating utils/alsasound.posix config.status: creating include/config.h config.status: creating include/config1.h config.status: creating include/version.h config.status: include/version.h is unchanged config.status: creating include/autoconf-extra.h Hacking autoconf.h... -----------end second snip------- ---------start third snip-------- [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# make install rm -f /lib/modules/0.0.0/misc/snd*.*o /lib/modules/0.0.0/misc/persist.o /lib/modules/0.0.0/misc/isapnp.o make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a/acore' mkdir -p /lib/modules/0.0.0/misc cp snd-hpet.o snd-hwdep.o snd-page-alloc.o snd-pcm.o snd-rawmidi.o snd-timer.o snd.o /lib/modules/0.0.0/misc cp: cannot stat `snd-hpet.o': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `snd-hwdep.o': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `snd-page-alloc.o': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `snd-pcm.o': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `snd-rawmidi.o': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `snd-timer.o': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `snd.o': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [_modinst__] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a/acore' make: *** [install-modules] Error 1 ------end third snip------- ----I continued to struggle, but to no avail-----------