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39 lines
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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="alsa" xreflabel="ALSA-&alsa-version;">
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<sect1info>
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<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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<date>$Date$</date>
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</sect1info>
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<?dbhtml filename="alsa.html"?>
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<title>ALSA-&alsa-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="alsa">
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<primary sortas="g-ALSA-Description">ALSA Description</primary></indexterm>
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<para>The first question which people tend to ask about <acronym>ALSA</acronym>
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is why they should use it over the sound drivers included in the
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kernel—there are several reasons. First, the <acronym>ALSA</acronym>
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drivers support more sound cards than those in the kernel. Second, the
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<acronym>OSS</acronym> emulation is in some cases faster and better than the
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original <acronym>OSS</acronym> driver itself. And finally, there are some
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programs which can use <acronym>ALSA</acronym>'s enhanced features to better
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drive the sound card.</para>
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<para><acronym>ALSA</acronym> is also the future of Linux Sound (hence the
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name <emphasis>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</emphasis>). The
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<acronym>ALSA</acronym> drivers were included into the main Linux kernel
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during the 2.5 development series, and they are now the "standard" sound
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drivers in the 2.6 stable kernel.</para>
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<para>The following five sections of the book deal with the five separate
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components of <acronym>ALSA</acronym>: the libraries, the utilities, the
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tools, the firmware and the <acronym>OSS</acronym> compatibility
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libraries.</para>
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</sect1>
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