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Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO

Valentijn Sessink valentyn@alsa-project.org

v2.0-pre1, 12 November 1999

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Describes the installation of the ALSA sound drivers for Linux. These sound drivers can be used as a replacement for the regular sound drivers, as they are fully compatible.

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Acknowledgments
• 1.2 Revision History
• 1.3 New versions of this document
• 1.4 Feedback
• 1.5 Distribution Policy

2. NOWTO - a quick install guide

• 2.1 Installing ALSA for kernels 2.2.x
• 2.2 Playing and recording sound
• 2.3 Installing ALSA for 2.0.x
• 2.4 Playing and recording sound

3. Before you start

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 General information about the ALSA drivers
• 3.3 Supported hardware
• 3.4 Other HOWTO's

4. How to install ALSA sound drivers

• 4.1 What you need
• 4.2 Getting the drivers
• 4.3 ALSA versions
• 4.4 Extracting
• 4.5 Compiling
• 4.6 Preparing the devices

5. Loading the driver

• 5.1 Inserting with modprobe
• 5.2 Which module for which card?
• 5.3 modprobe for drivers without auto-probing
• 5.4 The kerneld approach
• 5.5 Backwards compatibility

6. Testing and using

• 6.1 The /proc filesystem
• 6.2 The mixer
• 6.3 The /dev/snd/ devices
• 6.4 Additional information

7. Tips and Troubleshooting

• 7.1 Compiling the driver
• 7.2 Loading the driver
• 7.3 Driver loaded... but no (or hardly any) sound
• 7.4 General suggestions
• 7.5 Bug reports
• 7.6 Tip: playing CD's
• 7.7 Tip: installing the MIDI serial driver
• 7.8 Tip: new kernel? New modules!
• 7.9 Tip: KDE and ALSA drivers
• 7.10 Tip: use the ALSA devices
• 7.11 Tip: removing all modules

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