alsa driver
 

HI there this ismy first thread on the forum, so please beart with me; i have just entered the world of linux ( im using mandrake), and im quite inpressed so far, however, i am having some issues with my sound. I have an asus p4p800 mobo with onboard sound, and when i installed linux , there was no sound?? im assuming this is because linux uses OSS as a default?? anyways, i went ahead an got the latest dirver from the sus website ( which is just the alsa driver i believe ), and went ahead with the installation. this is essentially my first time using command line in about 10 years, so im quite rsuty. i was told i needed to compile the driver first. my procedure was
1. extracted the driver
2. configured the driver
3. used the "make" commmand

everything seems to work just fine until then . as this comes up when i trya nd run the make command :

[trendkill@d207-6-162-18 alsa-driver-1.0.9b]$ make install
find /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdksmp/kernel/sound -name 'snd*.*o' | xargs rm -f
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/trendkill/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.9b/acore'
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdksmp/kernel/sound/acore
mkdir: cannot create directory `/lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdksmp/kernel/sound/acore': Permission denied
make[1]: *** [modules_install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/trendkill/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.9b/acore'
make: *** [install-modules] Error 1
[trendkill@d207-6-162-18 alsa-driver-1.0.9b]$

it syas it "cannot create directory" and that permission is denied, im guessing that the OSS driver is taking up that spot on the kernel and i need to delete it , but I dont know how? or maybe its some thing im not doing in the process? im quite confused and after scouring the whole net for answers and something im at a loss now..... someone please help!!! :scratch:

Are you logged on as root to do that install?