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== Introduction to ALSA ==
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{{Package-Introduction|The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel has ALSA support by default, but you need the [[ALSA Library]] in order to interface with those kernel modules. Some of the other packages provided by the ALSA developers may be of use to you as well. They are listed below.
  
The Linux kernel now provides Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) support by default. However, applications need to interface to that capability. The following six sections deal with the six separate components of ALSA: the libraries, the plugins, the utilities, the tools, the firmware and the OSS compatibility libraries.
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You will probably need the [[ALSA Library]], [[ALSA Utilities]], and [[ALSA OSS]] packages at minimum. Further information about ALSA and its various packages can be found in the [http://alsa.opensrc.org/Main_Page ALSA Wiki].|http://www.alsa-project.org/}}
  
== Note on nVidia nForce 430 ==
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== Sections of ALSA ==
 
 
If you have nVidia HDA audio chips MCP51, MCP55, MCP65, or MCP67, nVidia recommends the hda-intel module for these chips.  The ALSA driver code did not include support for these chips until 1.0.14rc1.  ALSA-driver-1.0.14rc1 wasn't included in the kernel until the 2.6.20 series.  If you don't want to use a prepatch version of the kernel and can't wait for sound, the following patch can be applied to the linux-2.6.19 source so the snd-hda-intel module will support these nVidia chips.
 
 
 
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| http://svn.cross-lfs.org/svn/repos/patches/linux-2.6.19/linux-2.6.19-HDAudio-nVidia-1.patch
 
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== Components of ALSA ==
 
  
 
*[[ALSA Library]]
 
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*[[ALSA Firmware]]
 
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*[[ALSA OSS]]
 
*[[ALSA OSS]]
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*[[ALSA Driver]]
 
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*[[Main Page]]
 
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[[Category:Media Libraries]]

Latest revision as of 15:24, 19 March 2009

Introduction to ALSA

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel has ALSA support by default, but you need the ALSA Library in order to interface with those kernel modules. Some of the other packages provided by the ALSA developers may be of use to you as well. They are listed below.

You will probably need the ALSA Library, ALSA Utilities, and ALSA OSS packages at minimum. Further information about ALSA and its various packages can be found in the ALSA Wiki.

Project Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/

Sections of ALSA


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