Alsa Sound mini-HOWTO
Valentijn Sessink
v0.0, 8 February 1999
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.
1.
Introduction
1.1 Acknowledgments
1.2 Revision History
1.3 New versions of this document
1.4 Feedback
1.5 Distribution Policy
2.
Before you start
2.1 Introduction
2.2 General information about the Alsa drivers
2.3 Supported hardware
2.4 Other HOWTO's
3.
How to install Alsa sound drivers
3.1 What you need
3.2 Getting the drivers
3.3 Extracting
3.4 Compiling
3.5 Preparing the devices
4.
Loading the driver
4.1 Inserting with modprobe
4.2 Which module for which card?
4.3 modprobe for drivers without auto-probing
4.4 The kerneld approach
4.5 Backwards compatibility
5.
Testing and using
5.1 The /proc filesystem
5.2 The mixer
5.3 The /dev/snd/ devices
5.4 Additional information
6.
Tips and Troubleshooting
6.1 Troubleshooting: activation of the driver
6.2 Bug reports
6.3 Tip: playing CD's
6.4 Tip: new kernel? New modules!
6.5 Tip: KDE and Alsa drivers
6.6 Tip: use the Alsa devices
6.7 Tip: removing all modules