%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ ALSA Utilities The ALSA Utilities package contains various utilities which are useful for controlling your sound card. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &alsa-utils-md5sum; Download size: &alsa-utils-size; Estimated disk space required: &alsa-utils-buildsize; Estimated build time: &alsa-utils-time; ALSA Utilities Dependencies Required User Notes: Install ALSA Utilities by running the following commands: ./configure && make This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make install /etc/asound.state /etc/asound.state Use a bootscript to store the values at shutdown. alsa As the root user, install the init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa included in the package. make install-alsa Note that all channels of your sound card are muted by default. You can use the alsamixer program from the ALSA Utilities to change this. Use speaker-test to check that your settings have been applied correctly. The first time the alsactl program is run from the udev rule below, it will complain that there is no state in /etc/asound.state. You can prevent this by running the following commands as the root user: touch /etc/asound.state && alsactl store The volume settings will be restored from the saved state by Udev when the device is detected (during boot or when plugged in for USB devices). As the root user, install a new Udev rules file to create the audio device nodes and run the restore script: cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules << "EOF" # /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules # When a sound device is detected, restore the volume settings KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/sbin/alsactl restore %n" EOF chmod -v 644 /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories aconnect, alsaconf, alsactl, alsamixer, amidi, amixer, aplay, aplaymidi, arecord, arecordmidi, aseqnet, aseqdump, iecset, and speaker-test None None Short Descriptions aconnect is a utility for connecting and disconnecting two existing ports in the ALSA sequencer system. aconnect alsaconf is a configuration tool which tries to detect the sound cards on your system and write a suitable configuration file for ALSA. This program is incompatible with udev and hotplug. alsaconf alsactl is used to control advanced settings for the ALSA sound card drivers. alsactl alsamixer is an ncurses-based mixer program for use with the ALSA sound card drivers. alsamixer amidi is used to read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports. amidi amixer allows command-line control of the mixers for the ALSA sound card drivers. amixer aplay is a command-line soundfile player for the ALSA sound card drivers. aplay aplaymidi is a command-line utility that plays the specified MIDI file(s) to one or more ALSA sequencer ports. aplaymidi arecord is a command-line soundfile recorder for the ALSA sound card drivers. arecord arecordmidi is a command-line utility that records a standard MIDI file from one or more ALSA sequencer ports. arecordmidi aseqdump is a command-line utility that prints the sequencer events it receives as text. aseqdump aseqnet is an ALSA sequencer client which sends and receives event packets over a network. aseqnet iecset is a small utility to set or dump the IEC958 (or so-called S/PDIF) status bits of the specified sound card via the ALSA control API. iecset speaker-test is a command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA. speaker-test