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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the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, was originally started because the OSS architecture (see ["OSSFree"]) was outdated and the free variant of OSS lacked some drivers available only in the commercial variant.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

New, just in:

Installing and Configuring ALSA Sound Modules in Debian GNU/Linux HOWTO Version 1.0 http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/01/1645231&mode=thread&tid=90