ALSA driver
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts. The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer components of audio hardware. It also includes a fully-featured kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins, PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Capture/Recording CD Audio Conversion MIDI Mixers Players Sound Synthesis Software Development Libraries Hardware Operating System Kernels Linux Networking Monitoring Hardware Watchdog |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL LGPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 07 May 2009 08:58
Changes: Miscellaneous bugs were fixed. Several device drivers were enhanced.
- 21 Jan 2009 14:57
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 13 Nov 2008 11:52
Changes: The CS5535 driver and the HDA drivers were enhanced. PXA2xx Core support was improved. Several bugs were fixed. Code was cleaned up, and building with recent kernels was fixed.
- 30 Oct 2008 17:15
Changes: A jack reporting API was added. The PulseAudio plugin was enhanced. Simultaneous compilation of both PXA AC97 drivers is now possible. Drivers were added for TI TLV320AIC26, WM8900, WM8580, TriTech 28023, Asus V1Sn, ASUS Eeepc P90*, 92HD81/83, AMD HDMI Audio, and several more. Some several enhancements to the alsactl utility were made. Code was cleaned up. Many bugs were fixed.
- 11 Sep 2008 17:33
Changes: Several build fixes were made. The PulseAudio plugin was enhanced.
- All comments
Recent commentsChangeLog link, please?
It would be nice if the project would have a ChangeLog accessible without downloading the tarball. This way people can sync up with the latest additions in a very simple and quick fashion. IMO, this is a must-have for any open source project.
Solaris x86
I sure would like to see this extended to Solaris x86.
Re: ALSA don't work
If you need support with ALSA please look at http://www.alsa-project.org/ and/or write to the alsa-user@alsa-project.org mailing list.
We are always glad to help.
ALSA don't work
i like that it's opensource and better and stuff.
but i can't make it work. this sucks. anyone know
where more help is available? i've tried the INSTALL
and the mini-HOWTO, but i'm lost.
ALSA is very good.
I've been using ALSA for several months, and my experience has been very good. The sound quality is MUCH higher on my OPL3-SAx than it was with the OSS drivers, and it was in fact easier for me to install. I've reccomneded ALSA to several people since then, and they've all preferred it to OSS as well.
Ignore the naysayers here, ALSA is a very good thing and you should give it a try.