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Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO

Valentijn Sessink `valentyn@alsa-project.org`

v2.0-pre1, 12 November 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. NOWTO - a quick install guide

2.1 Installing ALSA for kernels 2.2.x
2.2 Playing and recording sound
2.3 Installing ALSA for 2.0.x
2.4 Playing and recording sound

3. Before you start

3.1 Introduction
3.2 General information about the ALSA drivers
3.3 Supported hardware
3.4 Other HOWTO's

4. How to install ALSA sound drivers

4.1 What you need
4.2 Getting the drivers
4.3 ALSA versions
4.4 Extracting
4.5 Compiling
4.6 Preparing the devices

5. Loading the driver

5.1 Inserting with modprobe
5.2 Which module for which card?
5.3 modprobe for drivers without auto-probing
5.4 The kerneld approach
5.5 Backwards compatibility

6. Testing and using

6.1 The /proc filesystem
6.2 The mixer
6.3 The /dev/snd/ devices
6.4 Additional information

7. Tips and Troubleshooting

7.1 Compiling the driver
7.2 Loading the driver
7.3 Driver loaded... but no (or hardly any) sound
7.4 General suggestions
7.5 Bug reports
7.6 Tip: playing CD's
7.7 Tip: installing the MIDI serial driver
7.8 Tip: new kernel? New modules!
7.9 Tip: KDE and ALSA drivers
7.10 Tip: use the ALSA devices
7.11 Tip: removing all modules