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This is the ALSA Sound drivers mini-HOWTO. It gives you information about
installing and using the ALSA sound drivers for your soundcard. The ALSA
drivers are fully modularized sound drivers that support kerneld and
kmod. They are compatible with, but surpass the possibilities of, the current
OSS API. In other words: compatible, but better.
This documents contains information I got from the ALSA driver page. The
structure was ripped off the SB-mini-HOWTO, mainly because it had about
the structure I was looking for. Thanks to the
SGML
Tools package, this HOWTO is available in several formats, all generated
from a common source file. Thanks to Erik Warmelink for proof
reading, thanks to Alfred Munnikes
for a couple of questions and helpful suggestions. Yamahata Isaku thanks for the Japanese
translation, Miodrag Vallat for the translation in French. Later on, Steve Crowder did a great
job by reading and editing the whole text. Thanks to Cserna Zsolt for the Hungarian translation and Marco Meloni for
the Italian one.
Thanks to Mohamed Ismail Mohamed-Ibrahim who sent me a document about the Trident 4DWave DX/NX soundcard
with a lot of useful information, thanks to Gerard Haagh who sent me a lot of useful information and
who also pointed out a few unclear sections.
Thanks to Marc-Aur`ele Darche, Piotr Ingling, Juergen Kahrs, Tim Pearce, Patrick Stoddard, Rutger de Graaf,
Shuly Wintner, Jyrki Saarela, Jonas Lofwander, Kumar Sankaran and many others for useful tips and additions.
Version 2.0-pre1 - November 12, 1999. Updating a couple of sections to ALSA 0.4.1e., added various links.
Version 1.7 - July 29, 1999. A few fixes.
Version 1.6 - July 26, 1999. Added a section about ALSA-versions
Version 1.5 - May 21, 1999. Changed the mixer section, added a quick install section
Version 1.4 - May 18, 1999. Included the URL to the French version, changed more URLs.
Version 1.3 - May 16, 1999. Thanks to Jaroslav this HOWTO has found a home at the ALSA-project website.
As a result of that, some updates in mail and web addresses.
Version 1.2 - May 11, 1999. Several updates.
Version 1.1 - March 11, 1999. Added a couple of sound cards from the new 0.3 series drivers, wrote a bit
about the 2.2 series kernel.
Version 1.0 - February 8, 1999. Added a few things to the troubleshooting section, but we seem fairly complete.
Version 0.3 beta - January 20, 1999. A link on the ALSA-homepage. Ha, we're official!
Version 0.2 alpha - Mid January 1999, first .sgml-version.
Version 0.1 alpha - January 1999, first version, mostly HTML.
Still: please submit any patches in plain English, you native speakers!
There are a couple of additions that need to be added to the HOWTO now. Notably,
Mohamed Ismail Mohamed-Ibrahim and Gerard Haagh wrote wonderful additions to the HOWTO, that will keep me
off my regular work for some more time. So this is 2.0-pre1 and more pre's are to follow.
The latest version can be found at
http://www.alsa-project.org./~valentyn Other formats (full size html, sgml, txt) are in the directory
other-formats. Unfortunately, I have not succeeded in compiling a Postscript version,
as the sgml2latex-script returns a bunch of errors.
Yamahata Isaku has translated a Japanese version, which will be available
at the Japanese ALSA site,
http://plaza21.mbn.or.jp/~momokuri/alsa/index.html Miodrag Vallat translated a French version, which is available at
http://www.freenix.fr/unix/linux/HOWTO/mini/Alsa.html.
Cserna Zsolt has translated the Hungarian version of the ALSA-HOWTO. You can find
it at
http://kib4.vein.hu/~zsolt/alsa.html.
Marco Meloni did an Italian version, you can get it at
http://pluto.linux.it/ildp/index.html.
If you make a translation of this document into another language, let
me know and I'll include a reference to it here. Ook een Nederlandse versie is welkom, ik heb zelf geen
tijd om deze te schrijven. Leve de koningin!
I rely on you, the reader, to make this HOWTO useful. If you have any suggestions,
corrections or comments, please send them to me (
alsa-howto@alsa-project.org),
and I will try to incorporate them in the next revision.
Please note: I do not get a lot of mail about the ALSA drivers and any addition is welcome. Even a
``thank you for'' is appreciated - maybe it's not too much work to add a ``I appreciated most'' or
``this-or-that was not immediately clear to me''-section.
If you publish this document on a CD-ROM or in hardcopy form, a complimentary
copy would be appreciated. Mail me for my postal address. Also consider
making a donation to the Linux Documentation Project to help support free
documentation for Linux. Contact the Linux HOWTO co-ordinator, Tim Bynum
linux-howto@metalab.unc.edu,
for more information.
Copyright 1998/1999 Valentijn Sessink
This HOWTO is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
without
any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.
You can obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing to
the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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