Richard, For me it looks like your kernel has ALSA included into source tree already. It is only a guess -- I dont have a lny linux in hands right now but you can check it with something like: find /usr/src/linux/ | xargs grep -sqi alsa && echo yes I have ALSA in kernel NB: i haven't try this but should work horsh ==================8<=========================== Hallo, Richard hat gesagt: // Richard wrote: > This only 2 examples. > > gcc-3.3.1-6 > kernel-2.4.22-1.2097.nptl > kernel-source to match > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1 -I/home/ric/alsa-driver-0.9.7c/include -I/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2097.nptl/build/include -O2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -DALSA_BUILD -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c hwdep.c > In file included from /home/ric/alsa-driver-0.9.7c/include/sound/driver.h:42, > from hwdep.c:22: > /home/ric/alsa-driver-0.9.7c/include/adriver.h:134: error: redefinition of `PDE'/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2097.nptl/build/include/linux/proc_fs.h:17: error: `PDE' previously defined here > make[1]: *** [hwdep.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ric/alsa-driver-0.9.7c/acore' > ... > At some point i been told that the drivers needed be fixed to compile in > fedora.so. well if you can make out something out of this.. ill appreciate Well, this is a bit strange. I'm guessing a bit now: The offending lines in your example result from adriver.h defining things for some kernel versions, including kernel 2.4.22. For example the error regarding PDE: /home/ric/alsa-driver-0.9.7c/include/adriver.h:134: error: redefinition of `PDE '/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2097.nptl/build/include/linux/proc_fs.h:17: error: `PDE' previously defined here This means, that somewhere in "include/linux/proc_fs.h" the name PDE is already defined. In adriver.h ALSA tries to define it on its own like this: #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 5, 4) #include <linux/fs.h> static inline struct proc_dir_entry *PDE(const struct inode *inode) { ... #endif The strange thing is, that in my rather vanilla version of kernel 2.4.22 there is no such thing as PDE in include/linux/*: $ grep PDE /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs* $ (nothing here) So I suspect, but I can only guess here, that your kernel source has a patch that introduces this PDE thing (I have no idea what it could be used for). I don't know if ALSA could fix that at all. It might be, that if Fedora ships a custom Linux kernel source, they should also provide adapted ALSA-sources. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__