%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ ALSA Utilities The ALSA Utilities package contains various utilities which are useful for controlling your sound card. 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; Install ALSA Utilities by running the following commands: ./configure && make Now, as the root user: make install /etc/asound.state /etc/asound.state Probably the easiest way to store mixer levels is to set and retrieve them using a bootscript. 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 ALSA Utilities (or any other OSS mixer) to change this. The first time the above script is run, 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 after installing ALSA Utilities: touch /etc/asound.state && alsactl store A final note is that the lines loading sfxload are commented out. They are there as an example of other things you may wish to do in the startup script. sfxload is a separate package of interest to SoundBlaster AWE and Live! users. It is designed for loading "sound-fonts" (which are used for MIDI output). You may wish to delete these lines and add your own or, if you have the relevant sound card, install sfxload and uncomment them. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories aconnect, alsaconf, alsactl, alsamixer, amidi, amixer, aplay, aplaymidi, arecord, arecordmidi, aseqnet, 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. 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 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