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<TITLE>Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO: Introduction</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>This is the ALSA Sound drivers mini-HOWTO. It gives you information about
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installing and using the ALSA sound drivers for your soundcard. The ALSA
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drivers are fully modularized sound drivers that support kerneld and
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kmod. They are compatible with, but surpass the possibilities of, the current
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OSS API. In other words: compatible, but better.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 Acknowledgments</A>
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</H2>
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<P>This documents contains information I got from the ALSA driver page. The
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structure was ripped off the SB-mini-HOWTO, mainly because it had about
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the structure I was looking for. Thanks to the
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<A HREF="http://www.sgmltools.org">SGML</A>
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Tools package, this HOWTO is available in several formats, all generated
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from a common source file. Thanks to Erik Warmelink for proof
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reading, thanks to Alfred Munnikes
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for a couple of questions and helpful suggestions. Yamahata Isaku thanks for the Japanese
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translation, Miodrag Vallat for the translation in French. Later on, Steve Crowder did a great
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job by reading and editing the whole text. Thanks to Cserna Zsolt for the Hungarian translation and Marco Meloni for
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the Italian one.
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Thanks to Mohamed Ismail Mohamed-Ibrahim who sent me a document about the Trident 4DWave DX/NX soundcard
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with a lot of useful information, thanks to Gerard Haagh who sent me a lot of useful information and
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who also pointed out a few unclear sections.
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<P>Thanks to Marc-Aur`ele Darche, Piotr Ingling, Juergen Kahrs, Tim Pearce, Patrick Stoddard, Rutger de Graaf,
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Shuly Wintner, Jyrki Saarela, Jonas Lofwander, Kumar Sankaran and many others for useful tips and additions.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 Revision History</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Version 2.0-pre1 - November 12, 1999. Updating a couple of sections to ALSA 0.4.1e., added various links.
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<P>Version 1.7 - July 29, 1999. A few fixes.
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<P>Version 1.6 - July 26, 1999. Added a section about ALSA-versions
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<P>Version 1.5 - May 21, 1999. Changed the mixer section, added a quick install section
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<P>Version 1.4 - May 18, 1999. Included the URL to the French version, changed more URLs.
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<P>Version 1.3 - May 16, 1999. Thanks to Jaroslav this HOWTO has found a home at the ALSA-project website.
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As a result of that, some updates in mail and web addresses.
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<P>Version 1.2 - May 11, 1999. Several updates.
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<P>Version 1.1 - March 11, 1999. Added a couple of sound cards from the new 0.3 series drivers, wrote a bit
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about the 2.2 series kernel.
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<P>Version 1.0 - February 8, 1999. Added a few things to the troubleshooting section, but we seem fairly complete.
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<P>Version 0.3 beta - January 20, 1999. A link on the ALSA-homepage. Ha, we're official!
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<P>Version 0.2 alpha - Mid January 1999, first .sgml-version.
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<P>Version 0.1 alpha - January 1999, first version, mostly HTML.
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<P>Still: please submit any patches in plain English, you native speakers!
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<P>There are a couple of additions that need to be added to the HOWTO now. Notably,
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Mohamed Ismail Mohamed-Ibrahim and Gerard Haagh wrote wonderful additions to the HOWTO, that will keep me
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off my regular work for some more time. So this is 2.0-pre1 and more pre's are to follow.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.3">1.3 New versions of this document</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The latest version can be found at
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<A HREF="http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn">http://www.alsa-project.org./~valentyn</A><P>Other formats (full size html, sgml, txt) are in the directory
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<A HREF="http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn/other-formats">other-formats</A>. Unfortunately, I have not succeeded in compiling a Postscript version,
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as the sgml2latex-script returns a bunch of errors.
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<P>Yamahata Isaku has translated a Japanese version, which will be available
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at the Japanese ALSA site,
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<A HREF="http://plaza21.mbn.or.jp/~momokuri/alsa/index.html">http://plaza21.mbn.or.jp/~momokuri/alsa/index.html</A><P>Miodrag Vallat translated a French version, which is available at
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<A HREF="http://www.freenix.fr/unix/linux/HOWTO/mini/Alsa.html">http://www.freenix.fr/unix/linux/HOWTO/mini/Alsa.html</A>.
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<P>Cserna Zsolt has translated the Hungarian version of the ALSA-HOWTO. You can find
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it at
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<A HREF="http://kib4.vein.hu/~zsolt/alsa.html">http://kib4.vein.hu/~zsolt/alsa.html</A>.
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<P>Marco Meloni did an Italian version, you can get it at
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<A HREF="http://pluto.linux.it/ildp/index.html">http://pluto.linux.it/ildp/index.html</A>.
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<P>If you make a translation of this document into another language, let
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me know and I'll include a reference to it here. Ook een Nederlandse versie is welkom, ik heb zelf geen
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tijd om deze te schrijven. Leve de koningin!
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.4">1.4 Feedback</A>
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</H2>
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<P>I rely on you, the reader, to make this HOWTO useful. If you have any suggestions,
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corrections or comments, please send them to me (
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<A HREF="mailto:alsa-howto@alsa-project.org">alsa-howto@alsa-project.org</A>),
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and I will try to incorporate them in the next revision.
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<P>Please note: I do not get a lot of mail about the ALSA drivers and any addition is welcome. Even a
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``thank you for'' is appreciated - maybe it's not too much work to add a ``I appreciated most'' or
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``this-or-that was not immediately clear to me''-section.
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<P>If you publish this document on a CD-ROM or in hardcopy form, a complimentary
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copy would be appreciated. Mail me for my postal address. Also consider
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making a donation to the Linux Documentation Project to help support free
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documentation for Linux. Contact the Linux HOWTO co-ordinator, Tim Bynum
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<A HREF="mailto:linux-howto@metalab.unc.edu">linux-howto@metalab.unc.edu</A>,
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for more information.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.5">1.5 Distribution Policy</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Copyright 1998/1999 Valentijn Sessink
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<P>This HOWTO is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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option) any later version.
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<P>This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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<B>without
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any warranty</B>; without even the implied warranty of
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<B>merchantability</B>
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or <B>fitness for a particular purpose</B>. See the GNU General Public
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License for more details.
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<P>You can obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing to
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the
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<A HREF="http://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</A>, Inc., 675
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Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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