This is FYI only. I assume the problem is either (1) already known or (2) my fault. Susan

susan@ubuntu:~/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable$ ./configure && make 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 ISO C89... 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 grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/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... /home/susan/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable checking cross compile... checking for directory with kernel source... /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build checking for directory with kernel build... checking for kernel linux/version.h... yes checking for kernel linux/autoconf.h... yes checking for kernel version... 2.6.28-11-generic checking for GCC version... ./configure: eval: line 5216: syntax error near unexpected token `)' ./configure: eval: line 5216: `my_compiler_version=4.3.3-5ubuntu4)' Kernel compiler: Used compiler: gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3

*** NO PREDEFINED KERNEL COMPILER IS DETECTED *** Assuming the same compiler is used with the current system compiler.

*** Please make sure that the same compiler version was used for building kernel.

checking for built-in ALSA... no checking for existing ALSA module... yes checking for Red Hat kernel... auto checking for Red Hat kernel... no checking for SUSE kernel... auto checking for SUSE kernel... no checking for updating alsa-kernel version.h... yes checking for CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL... yes checking for directory to store kernel modules... /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/sound checking for verbose procfs... on checking for verbose printk... on checking for debug level... none checking for ISA support in kernel... yes checking for processor type... i586 checking for i386 machine type... default checking for ISA DMA API... yes checking for kernel linux/config.h... no Creating <linux/config.h>... checking for deprecated linux/config.h... checking to modify of kernel linux/kmod.h... no checking for kernel linux/utsrelease.h... yes checking for kernel linux/compiler.h... yes checking for kernel linux/pm.h... yes checking for kernel linux/spinlock.h... yes checking for kernel 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for snprintf... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for scnprintf... yes checking for sscanf... yes checking for vmalloc_to_page... yes checking for old kmod... no checking for PDE... yes checking for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask... yes checking for pci_dev_present... yes checking for msleep... yes checking for msleep_interrupt... yes checking for msecs_to_jiffies... yes checking for tty->count is the atomic type... no checking for video_get_drvdata... yes checking for video_drvdata... yes checking for V4L1 layer... yes checking for io_remap_pfn_range... yes checking for kcalloc... yes checking for kstrdup... yes checking for kstrndup... yes checking for kzalloc... yes checking for create_workqueue with flags... no checking for pci_ioremap_bar... yes checking for saved_config_space in pci_dev... yes checking for new pci_save_state... yes checking for register_sound_special_device... yes checking for driver extra-version... checking for driver version... 1.0.19 checking for dynamic minor numbers... no checking for sequencer support... yes checking for OSS/Free emulation... yes checking for OSS PCM plugin system inclusion... yes checking for RTC support... no checking for HPET support... yes checking for Procfs support... yes checking for USB support... yes checking for class_simple... no checking for old driver suspend/resume callbacks... no checking for removal of page-reservation for nopage/mmap... no checking for nested class_device... no checking for new IRQ handler... yes checking for gfp_t... yes checking for GFP_DMA32... yes checking for page_to_pfn... yes checking for PnP suspend/resume... yes checking for device_create_drvdata... no checking for new unlocked/compat_ioctl... yes checking for builtin _Bool support... yes checking for x86-compatible PC... yes checking for High-Res timers... yes checking for kernel PCMCIA checking for PCMCIA support... yes checking for PC9800 support in kernel... no checking for parallel port support... yes checking for power management... yes checking for CONFIG_HAS_DMA... yes checking for cards to compile driver for... all checking for additonal options to compile driver for... all configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating version config.status: creating Makefile.conf config.status: WARNING: 'Makefile.conf.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting config.status: creating snddevices config.status: creating utils/alsa-driver.spec config.status: creating utils/buildrpm config.status: creating toplevel.config config.status: creating utils/alsasound config.status: creating utils/alsasound.posix config.status: creating include/pci_ids_compat.h config.status: creating include/i2c-id_compat.h config.status: creating include/config.h config.status: include/config.h is unchanged config.status: creating include/config1.h config.status: include/config1.h is unchanged config.status: creating include/version.h config.status: include/version.h is unchanged config.status: creating include/autoconf-extra.h config.status: include/autoconf-extra.h is unchanged Hacking autoconf.h... make dep make[1]: Entering directory `/home/susan/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/susan/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/acore' copying file alsa-kernel/core/info.c patching file info.c Hunk #2 FAILED at 155. Hunk #3 succeeded at 162 (offset -5 lines). Hunk #4 succeeded at 172 (offset -5 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 203 (offset -5 lines). Hunk #6 succeeded at 490 (offset -5 lines). Hunk #7 FAILED at 530. Hunk #8 FAILED at 994. Hunk #9 succeeded at 1018 (offset -10 lines). 3 out of 9 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file info.c.rej make[2]: *** [info.c] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/susan/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/acore' make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/susan/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable' make: *** [include/sndversions.h] Error 2