Compiling alsa 1.0.11rc4 on FC5 and kernel wierdness

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Thu Mar 30 07:22:29 UTC 2006


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Allyn, Mark A wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> First of all, thanks for helping me find the kernel sources. I did find
> them.
> 
> Now, I have another interesting problem. 
> 
> I am trying to compile the alsa driver from alsa 1.0.11rc4 and I am
> having lots of compiler errors.
> 
> I have done some tracing and I have seemed to come to a conclusion that
> there are some kernel 2.6.16 features (such as structures) in FC5's
> kernel,
> yet that kernel is 2.6.15**. This is breaking some conditionals in the 
> source code where it is looking for kernel version 2.6.15 or earlier.
> 
> Are any of you aware of changes that have been put into the 2.6.15
> kernel
> that FC5 has that are actually from the 2.6.16 stock kernel?
> 
> For that matter, have any of you been able to successfully compile the
> alsa
> version 1.0.11rc4 driver under the FC5 kernel?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Mark Allyn
> 




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