Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello all:
> Quick question - probably I've missed something obvious.  I'm trying to build 
> the alsa drivers (version 1.01) on a machine running Red Hat 8.  (It's a Sony 
> notebook, the sound has never worked under Linux, though it works in Windows. 
>  This new alsa is supposed to handle my SoundMax driver hardware.)  The 
> library portion built OK, but the "configure" file under the driver directory 
> is looking for a file called /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h.   I 
> didn't have the kernel sources on this machine, so I got the CD and installed 
> the file kernel-2.4.18-14.src.rpm, then unpacked it as the "linux" directory. 
>  For some reason there's no version.h file under linux/include/linux, so the 
> configure script still doesn't run (yes, I redirected it to 
> /usr/redhat/SOURCES/linux, which is the actual place RH puts it.)  I suppose 
> I need to find a different SRPM to install but I don't have a clue which one. 
>  Any suggestions?  Thanks!

You probably have a /usr/src/linux-2.4.18 directory, or something to 
that effect.  Make a symbolic link called linux to that directory.  As root:

ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux

Check your /usr/src directory to see the correct link target if it is 
not linux-2.4.18.

Then, you should be set!

Alan