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>7. References</A
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>If you have a sound card that supports a CD-ROM or SCSI interface, the
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Linux
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HREF="ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/SCSI-HOWTO"
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>SCSI HOWTO</A
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and the Linux <A
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HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>CD-ROM HOWTO</A
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have additional information that may be useful to you.</P
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><P
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>The <A
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>Sound Playing HOWTO</A
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describes how to play various types of sound and music files under Linux.</P
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>The
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HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html"
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>Linux SoundBlaster AWE32/64 Mini-HOWTO</A
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describes how to get a SoundBlaster 32 or 64 card working under Linux.</P
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>Programming information is available from the 4Front Technologies web site at
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HREF="http://www.opensound.com/pguide"
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>http://www.opensound.com/pguide</A
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>.</P
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>The following FAQs are regularly posted to the Usenet newsgroup
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as well as being archived at
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<A
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HREF="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers"
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>ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers</A
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>:</P
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>PCsoundcards/generic-faq (Generic PC Soundcard FAQ)</P
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>PCsoundcards/soundcard-faq (comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard FAQ)</P
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>PCsoundcards/gravis-ultrasound/faq (Gravis UltraSound FAQ)</P
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>audio-fmts/part1 (Audio file format descriptions)</P
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>audio-fmts/part2 (Audio file format descriptions)</P
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>The FAQs also list several product specific mailing lists
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and archive sites. The following Usenet news groups discuss sound
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and/or music related issues:</P
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HREF="news:alt.binaries.sounds"
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>alt.binaries.sounds.*</A
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(various groups for posting sound files)</P
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HREF="news:alt.binaries.multimedia"
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>alt.binaries.multimedia</A
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(for posting Multimedia files)</P
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>alt.sb.programmer</A
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(Soundblaster programming topics)</P
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>comp.multimedia</A
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(Multimedia topics)</P
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>comp.music</A
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(Computer music theory and research)</P
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>comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.*</A
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(various IBM PC sound card groups)</P
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>A web site dedicated to multimedia can be found at <A
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>http://www.scala.com/multimedia/</A
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Another good site for Linux MIDI and sound applications is
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HREF="http://sound.condorow.net/"
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>http://sound.condorow.net/</A
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Creative Labs has a web site at <A
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>http://www.creaf.com/</A
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>The Linux mailing list has a number of "channels" dedicated
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to different topics. To find out how to join, send a mail message with
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the word "help" as the message body to
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>majordomo@vger.kernel.org</A
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>As mentioned several times before, the kernel sound driver includes a
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number of <TT
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>Readme</TT
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> files containing useful information about
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the sound card driver. These can typically be found in the directory
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<TT
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>/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound</TT
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>.</P
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>Information on OSS, the commercial sound driver for Linux and other
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Unix compatible operating systems, can be found at the 4Front
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Technologies web page at
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<A
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HREF="http://www.opensound.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.opensound.com/</A
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>The <EM
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>Linux Software Map</EM
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> (LSM) is an invaluable
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reference for locating Linux software. The LSM home page is at
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<A
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HREF="http://www.ExecPC.com/lsm/"
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>http://www.ExecPC.com/lsm/</A
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>.
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and there is an on-line browsable version at
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<A
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HREF="http://www.boutell.com/lsm/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.boutell.com/lsm/</A
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>.</P
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><P
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>Another great site for finding Linux applications is
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HREF="http://www.freshmeat.net/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.freshmeat.net/</A
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>.</P
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><P
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>The Linux Documentation Project has produced several books
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on Linux, including <EM
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>Linux Installation and Getting
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Started</EM
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>. These are freely available by anonymous FTP from major
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Linux archive sites or can be purchased in hardcopy format.</P
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><P
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>Finally, a shameless plug: If you want to learn a lot more about
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multimedia under Linux (especially CD-ROM and sound card applications
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and programming), check out my book <EM
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>Linux Multimedia
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Guide</EM
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>, ISBN 1-56592-219-0, published by O'Reilly and
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Associates. As well as the original English version, French and
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Japanese translations are now in print. For details, call 800-998-9938
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in North America or check the web page
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<A
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HREF="http://www.ora.com/catalog/multilinux/noframes.html"
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>http://www.ora.com/catalog/multilinux/noframes.html</A
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