Alsa (was: Re: Which Sound Card?)

[Bob Ham <nospam [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Richard wrote:

> Works fine with OSS but I can't figure out how to use Alsa so I can't
> say anything about that.

Alsa is really, really easy to use.  Follow these simple instructions:

Make you kernel with support for sound and maybe oss modules if you
want.  All things under sound should be compiled as modules.

tar xIf alsa-drivers.x.y.z.tar.bz2
tar xIf alsa-lib.x.y.z.tar.bz2
tar xIf alsa-utils.x.y.z.tar.bz2

cd alsa-d*
./configure
su root -c 'make install'
su root -c 'snddevices'

cd ../alsa-l*
./configure
make
su root -c 'make install'

cd ../alsa-u*
make
su root -c 'make install'

modprobe snd-card-[sb16|sbawe|gus|whatever]

If you want oss compatibilty:

modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss

And there you are.  You may need to put stuff in /etc/modules.conf, but
you may not.  Read alsa-drivers.x.y.z/README for details of what to put
in there.

Bob

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