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> 	I remember having tried installing the alsa-driver, but getting the
> complaint that /usr/src/linux does not contain any Makefile.

Well, does it?

You need to have the kernel source to compile a kernel module.  This is
generally true of all kernel modules, not just ALSA.

If you have the source in another location you can rerun the configure
script as:

configure --with-kernel=/directory/where/kernel/source/is

Eric


