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["Sound"]
["ALSA"], the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, was originally started because the OSS architecture (see ["OSSFree"]) was outdated and the free variant of OSS lacked some drivers available only in the commercial variant.
["ALSA"] is not just a set of ["sound"] drivers, it is also an extensible API that handles the latest features of sound cards (e.g., multiple sound channels, Dolby AC-3, etc.)
For years ["ALSA"] was a project separate from Linux. It was added to Linux during the 2.5 development series and became the standard sound system in Linux 2.6.
ALSA is backward compatible with ["OSSFree"].
Configuration
To configure the sound, run the ALSA sound configuration utility
alsaconf
as ["root"]. Alsaconf will automatically probe the sound card and configure it. Just follow the prompts and you will have sound working.
More information
For more information, check out http://www.alsa-project.org and http://alsa.opensrc.org
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