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== Dependencies == | == Dependencies == | ||
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=== Required === | === Required === | ||
* [[ALSA Library]] | * [[ALSA Library]] | ||
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| + | * [[Dialog]] (used by alsaconf) | ||
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== Configuration Information == | == Configuration Information == | ||
| + | If using systemd, no configuration is needed and you can safely skip the rest of this page. | ||
| + | Else, use a bootscript to store the values at shutdown. | ||
| − | + | As the root user, install the init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa included in the [[bootscripts]] package. | |
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| − | As the root user, install the init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa included in the [[ | ||
make install-alsa | make install-alsa | ||
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As the root user, install a new Udev rules file to create the audio device nodes and run the restore script: | As the root user, install a new Udev rules file to create the audio device nodes and run the restore script: | ||
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chmod 644 /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules | chmod 644 /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules | ||
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| + | udevtrigger /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules | ||
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| + | Using Newer udev, udevtrigger is removed from the install, use | ||
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| + | udevadm trigger /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules | ||
* Note for users with multiple soundcards | * Note for users with multiple soundcards | ||
[http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards Alsa tutorial for multiple soundcards] | [http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards Alsa tutorial for multiple soundcards] | ||
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| + | The first time the alsactl program is run from the udev rule above, it will complain that there is no state in /etc/asound.state. You can prevent this by running the following commands as the root user: | ||
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| + | touch /etc/asound.state && | ||
| + | alsactl store | ||
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! Installed Libraries: | ! Installed Libraries: | ||
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! Installed Directory: | ! Installed Directory: | ||
Latest revision as of 02:36, 24 May 2014
| Download Source: | ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/alsa-utils-1.0.27.2.tar.bz2 |
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Contents
Introduction to ALSA Utilities
The ALSA Utilities package contains the command line utilities for the ALSA project. This package can be compiled only with the installed ALSA driver and the ALSA C library.
Project Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Dependencies
Required
Optional
Non-Multilib
If you do not have xmlto add --disable-xmlto to the configure command. If building with systemd add --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system to the configure command.
Compile the package:
./configure && make
Install the package
make install
Multilib
This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.
64Bit
If you do not have xmlto add --disable-xmlto to the configure command. If building with systemd add --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system to the configure command.
Compile the package:
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure &&
make
Install the package
make install
Configuration Information
If using systemd, no configuration is needed and you can safely skip the rest of this page. Else, use a bootscript to store the values at shutdown.
As the root user, install the init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa included in the bootscripts package.
make install-alsa
Note
All channels of your sound card are muted by default. You can use the alsamixer program from the ALSA Utilities to change this.
As the root user, install a new Udev rules file to create the audio device nodes and run the restore script:
cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules << "EOF" # Give the audio group ownership of sound devices SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio" SUBSYSTEM=="snd", GROUP="audio" # ALSA Devices # When a sound device is detected, restore the volume settings KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl restore %n" KERNEL=="hw[CD0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k" KERNEL=="pcm[CD0-9cp]*", NAME="snd/%k" KERNEL=="midiC[D0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k" KERNEL=="timer", NAME="snd/%k" KERNEL=="seq", NAME="snd/%k" EOF chmod 644 /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules
udevtrigger /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules
Using Newer udev, udevtrigger is removed from the install, use
udevadm trigger /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules
- Note for users with multiple soundcards
Alsa tutorial for multiple soundcards
The first time the alsactl program is run from the udev rule above, it will complain that there is no state in /etc/asound.state. You can prevent this by running the following commands as the root user:
touch /etc/asound.state && alsactl store
Contents
| Installed Programs: | alsactl, alsaconf, alsamixer, amidi, amixer, aplay, iecset, aconnect, aplaymidi, arecordmidi, aseqdump, aseqnet, speaker-test |
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| Installed Libraries: | None |
| Installed Directory: | /usr/share/alsa/speaker-test, /ut/share/sounds/alsa |
Short Descriptions
| alsactl | is a utility for soundcard settings management. |
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| alsaconf | is the ALSA driver configurator script. |
| aplay/arecord | is a utility for the playback/capture of .wav,.voc,.au files. |
| amixer | is a command line mixer. |
| alsamixer | is an ncurses mixer. |
| amidi | is a utility to send/receive sysex dumps or other MIDI data. |
| iecset | is a utility to show/set the IEC958 status bits. |
| aconnect | ??? |
| aplaymidi | ??? |
| arecordmidi | ??? |
| aseqdump | ??? |
| aseqnet | ??? |
| speaker-test | ??? |
