alsa 1.0.6 won't make

[Jude DaShiell]

You look in /root/install.log that's the list of everything installed on 
the system by fedora. What I found out enabled me to get alsa-1.0.6 
working but I didn't end up building alsa-driver-1.0.6 to do it though. 
I'm documenting it here in the hope it will help a few people.  One of the 
packages that's not installed as a server type fedora system is 
alsa-utils-1.0.6.  I noticed that missing in the install.log file.  So I 
went out to ftp://alsa-project.org/alsa-utils/ and downloaded the 1.0.6 
version and built it.  That's the package that contains alsaconf and 
without alsaconf you are s.o.l.  So with alsaconf in place I ran it and 
agreed to the modification of /etc/modules.conf and selected my sound card 
an snd-ens1371 at the top of the list by hitting the return on the ok 
button when that list came up.  Next I hit return to allow the script to 
do its thing.  It couldn't find rc.alsasound but said the system was ready 
so I rebooted to take advantage of the new /etc/modules.conf.  Could just 
as easily have typed source /etc/modules.conf but the coffee level was 
under where it should have been at the time.  Next I used aumix -v 
100;aumix -c 100;aumix -p 100;aumix -m 100 to adjust volumes.  Then I 
tried aplay -q /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Start.wav for a test.  Believe me 
you'll know whether your sound card is working after that for sure! It was 
a reboot and another try and still the sound played. Okay, before doing 
the first reboot that brought speakup up I had used a script found at 
http://www.draikes.com called cfg-gnome.sh sh cfg-gnome.sh in root 
directory.  I found typing startx only got gnopernicus talking partially 
not all windows were created.  So I did telinit 5 and gnopernicus so far 
as I can tell came up completely. I haven't tried it with starting the 
system up with just X on a line by itself but that will be the next 
experiment since that way I can leave the system at a default run level of 
3 and run X when I have a mind to do so.  The goal is to find out how to 
duplicate this same success on debian and slackware and then write a howto 
for gnopernicus covering all three of those systems.