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<sect1 id="alsa" xreflabel="ALSA-&alsa-version;">
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<?dbhtml filename="alsa.html" dir="multimedia"?>
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<title>ALSA-&alsa-version;</title>
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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 kernel - there
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are several reasons. First, the <acronym>ALSA</acronym> drivers support more
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sound cards than those in the kernel. Second, the <acronym>OSS</acronym>
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emulation is in some cases faster and better than the original <acronym>OSS
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</acronym> driver itself. And finally, there are some programs which can use
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<acronym>ALSA</acronym>'s enhanced features to better drive the soundcard.
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</para>
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<para><acronym>ALSA</acronym> is also likely to be the future of Linux Sound
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(hence the name <emphasis>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</emphasis>), and
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the <acronym>ALSA</acronym> drivers will probably be included into the main
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linux kernel at some point during the 2.5 development series, leading
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eventually to <acronym>ALSA</acronym> being the "standard" sound drivers into
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the future 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 drivers, the libraries, the
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utilities, the tools and the <acronym>OSS</acronym> compatibility libraries.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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&alsa-driver;
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&alsa-lib;
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&alsa-utils;
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&alsa-tools;
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&alsa-oss;
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