sound card problem

[Bui Viet Dung]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 19:56 -0400, Dan Ziolkowski wrote:

> I did not know about the universe repository, I researched it and
> activated it. I do not know what you mean by "And you have source code
> lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file ?" Please I am new to Ubuntu,
> just in process of getting going...I do have some experience with
> Fedora, but not much. 
> 
> I ran sudo apt-get install alsa-source, ran ok.
> 
> Then went back to my commands- but could not get it to configure--
> 
> -laptop:/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver$ sudo ./configure
> --with-kernel=/sr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r) --with-cards=via8237
> --with-oss=yes 
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for ranlib... ranlib 
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for egrep... grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes 
> checking for inline... inline
> checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
> checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
> checking for current directory... /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver
> checking cross compile...
> checking for directory with kernel
> source... /sr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-28-386checking for directory
> with kernel build...
> checking for kernel linux/version.h... no
> The file /sr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-28-386/include/linux/version.h
> does not exist.
> Please install the package with full kernel sources for your
> distribution
> or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with
> kernel
> sources (default is /lib/modules/2.6.15-28-386/build).
> danz at danz-laptop:/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver$
> 
> I could not find this in the default either. I did some searches but
> came up empty.
> 
> Thanks Dan
> 

It seems you're missing the linux-headers-2.6.15-28-386 and/or
linux-source. So open up Synaptic (Menu -> System -> Administration ->
Syntaptic Package Manager and search for those. Hope this helps :-)

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