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XML update for Chapter 37

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[48b7295]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
[8c3989b2]8<sect1 id="alsa" xreflabel="ALSA-&alsa-version;">
[dd3f20f0]9<?dbhtml filename="alsa.html"?>
[8c3989b2]10<title>ALSA-&alsa-version;</title>
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[8c3989b2]12<para>The first question which people tend to ask about <acronym>ALSA</acronym>
[96ee548]13is why they should use it over the sound drivers included in the kernel&mdash;there
[8c3989b2]14are several reasons. First, the <acronym>ALSA</acronym> drivers support more
15sound cards than those in the kernel. Second, the <acronym>OSS</acronym>
16emulation is in some cases faster and better than the original <acronym>OSS
17</acronym> driver itself. And finally, there are some programs which can use
[96ee548]18<acronym>ALSA</acronym>'s enhanced features to better drive the sound card.
[8c3989b2]19</para>
[f45b1953]20
[921e3867]21<para><acronym>ALSA</acronym> is also the future of Linux Sound (hence the
[96ee548]22name <emphasis>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</emphasis>). The <acronym>ALSA</acronym>
23drivers were included into the main Linux kernel during the 2.5 development series,
[921e3867]24and they are now the "standard" sound drivers in the 2.6 stable kernel.</para>
[f45b1953]25
[921e3867]26<para>The following six sections of the book deal with the six separate
[8c3989b2]27components of <acronym>ALSA</acronym>: the drivers, the libraries, the
[921e3867]28utilities, the tools, the firmware and the <acronym>OSS</acronym> compatibility libraries.
[8c3989b2]29</para>
[f45b1953]30
31</sect1>
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