Hello all.
I've been trying to get a creative soundblaster 16 to work on my pc for a couple of months now, and thanks to some fine folks who were willing to use small newbie friendly words I've been able to get sound out of the thing.
However, alsa wants nothing to do with it. I've been b*tching and moaning about the jackit program not working, but it seems it's not jackit, it's alsa giving me hell.
I had to use sndconfig to get the card recognized by the kernel (It's now loaded as module sb.o), but alsaconf doesn't see the card and won't let me tinker with any options to try for luck.
I tried building alsa from source and followed all of the instructions, but when I try to install the module I was told to use with modprobe snd-card-sb16 (Which is not the sb.o I got working), I get the error:
/lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/misc/snd.o: The module you are trying to load (/lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/misc/snd.o) is compiled with a gcc
version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running is compiled with
a gcc version 3 compiler. This is known to not work.
modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/misc/snd.o failed
modprobe: insmod snd-card-sb16 failedmodprobe snd-card-sb16


Can anyone please help me? I'm a musician, and I can't do any sound recording without alsa.

Thanks again folks :-)

What you'll need to do is upgrade your gcc to the latest version and then recompile ALSA. Following the directions on alsa-project.org is a good idea and you've most likely been doing everything right. Just search with Google for the latest gcc rpm and upgrade. Hope you get it all working!

I'm sorry, I guess I was a little vague.

I'm running mandrake 9.2 on a pentium 2, 380 m sdram, 12g hd. Trouble all around as you can see.

I would think that mandrake 9.2 has the most up to date gcc, but I will try your suggestion.
Thanks :-)

* gcc-3.3.1

That's weird. It should have used gcc-3.3.1 to compile the module. I'm not exactly sure what's going on and I wish I could help your more but I'm stumped. Sorry! Keep looking around and experimenting. Hope you get it working.

Thanks anyway :-)

Hello all.
I'm still unable to get alsa to see my sound blaster.
Running alsaconfig just doesn't even see the thing.
I've tried compiling alsa from source and cvs with the --with-sb16 option, but it didn't help.
Anyone have an idea what I'm overlooking?

Appreciate any help :-)