Well I thought I'd be brainy today and install the 2.6 kernel with alsa support. So I went ahead and did that following these guidlines:

http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799/3699

And I compiled both the alsa-libs and the alsa-utils prior to install

Next I went and compiled it all... everything went lovely and low and behold I am running a 2.6 test 9 kernel (yes its very fast)

Now I decided I should compile the alsa-driver right? So I went ahead and compiled it... the ./configure went perfectly.... but during the make I get these errors:

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In file included from /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.8/include/adriver.h:42,
from /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.8/include/sound/driver.h:42, from hwdep.c:22:
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers,
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but rather headers from an appropriate kernel-source package.
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:3:2: #error Change -I/usr/src/linux/include (or similar) to
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:4:2: #error -I/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:5:2: #error to build against the currently-running kernel.
make[1]: *** [hwdep.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-0.9.8/acore'
make: *** [compile] Error 1
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If I try modprobing the soundcard it says:
[root@localhost alsamixer]# modprobe snd-card-intel8x0
FATAL: Module snd_card_intel8x0 not found.

I also tried configuring it through the nifty redhat soundcard detection util with no luck either. What should I do?

I could be wrong but I think nForce sound drivers only work with OSS.

DAVE

That can't be right cause it says its supported at the ALSA website. Also when I used to run Suse I had alsa working with it.

As I said, I could be wrong. It's just that the settings for nForce (ie the "alias sound-slot-0 nvaudio") line in /etc/modules.conf is an OSS line. I tried to get KDE arts to run from alsa and got silence, and uninstalled alsa and it made no difference. There may be a way of setting nForce up for alsa but I don't know how you go about it.

DAVE

ALSA and Nforce2 work just fine together in kernel 2.4.22. You simply need to select nothing in the Sound menu, except for the support itself.

I just upgraded to 2.4.23 and I am receiving those same exact errors when trying to compile ALSA.