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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

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