Error compiling alsa-driver with slack 10.2 and 2.6.16.2

Kovacs · 04-10-2006, 09:54 PM

I've just done a fresh install of Slack 10.2, upgrading from my aging 10.1 installation.

Sounds worked fine with the stock 2.4.31 kernel and alsa packages, alsaconf successfully detects my sound card (integrated SiS 7012, using intel8x0 driver). I recompiled my kernel (2.6.16.2), with just soundcore enabled but no alsa or oss. I had planned on compiling the alsa stuff as modules from the sources at alsa-project.org because that is what I had to do when I installed 2.6 on my previous Slack 10 installation.

So I download, untar and try to compile alsa-driver-1.0.10.
I configure it using:

./configure --with-cards=intel8x0 --with-sequencer=yes

but when I run make, I get this error (this is just the end part of the output):

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.2'
CC [M] /home/kovacs/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.10/acore/memalloc.o
CC [M] /home/kovacs/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.10/acore/sgbuf.o
In file included from /home/kovacs/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.10/include/adriver.h:770,
from /home/kovacs/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.10/acore/sgbuf.c:13:
include/linux/pci.h:460: error: syntax error before numeric constant
make[4]: *** [/home/kovacs/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.10/acore/sgbuf.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/home/kovacs/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.10/acore] Error 2
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/kovacs/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.10] Error 2
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.2'
make: *** [compile] Error 2

The 2.6.16.2 kernel source is in /usr/src/linux, I also have the 2.4.31 kernel headers installed but have removed the 2.4.31 source and modules packages.

Any ideas?

ingvildr · 04-10-2006, 09:59 PM

i had trouble with the 1.0.10 alsa driver and the .16 kernel too, you could either use a .15 kernel or go grab version 1.0.11 of the alsa drivers.

perfect_circle · 04-10-2006, 10:03 PM

You are using the 1.0.10.
take a look at the slackware-current changelog:

Quote:

l/alsa-driver-1.0.11rc3_2.4.32-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to lsa-driver-1.0.11rc3 compiled for Linux 2.4.32. The 2.6.15.6 kernel does not work properly using the modules in alsa-driver-1.0.10, but works fine with these. Although I'm normally against using release candidates, I thought in this case that the version of alsa-driver used by the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels should be the same since the package does install some header files that would overlap. It's worked fine on both 2.4.32 and 2.6.15.6 here, and the other alsa-* packages compile against it without errors (so I don't see a need to update those). I think this will work, but let me know if this upgrade causes any problems.

Kovacs · 04-10-2006, 10:40 PM

Thanks guys, I downloaded and compiled 1.0.11rc4 and it works fine.