Zach VanderVeen writes: > I said that I installed Mandrake 8.1 in my first email.
Indeed you did, sorry I overlooked that! I have kernel > 2.4.8-26. > > gcc -v says: > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/specs > gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk) > Why don't those kernel version match up? Is that the problem? The gcc version and the kernel version aren't supposed to match, they are two separate versions of software. 2.96 is the gcc version, the info in parens is describing what kind of system gcc was built on). > I understand you need information, but I wouldn't be asking questions if I > knew anything. I put what I thought was relevant info in my first email. Yes, I read right over the mention of "mandrake", and I didn't mean to give you a hard time about it. What's going on, I think, is that Mandrake has followed RedHat's lead in shipping distros with broken C compilers. (I find this rather annoying and counterproductive). There was a fiasco when RH7.0 came out, it shipped with their "enhanced" gcc which (IIRC) gave better performance benchmarks on IA64 cpus, but was never blessed for release by the GCC maintainers - it was a "not ready for prime time" development snapshot that the geniuses at RedHat foisted upon the world. Looks like now the geniuses at Mandrake are doing the same thing. Do some Googling for "gcc 2.96" and you'll find more than you wanted to know about this. I would recommend replacing your compiler with gcc-2.95.3, which, in my experience, is quite usable. Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user