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1<sect2>
2<title>Contents</title>
3
4<para>There are 5 different alsa-packages:</para>
5
6<para>The alsa-driver package contains the driver module sources.</para>
7
8<para>The alsa-lib package contains a Library for sound access methods
9provided by the alsa-driver.</para>
10
11<para>The alsa-utils package contains the tools
12<userinput>alsamixer</userinput>, a ncurses based console mixer,
13<userinput>alsactl</userinput>, a control program for the driver,
14<userinput>aplay</userinput>, a simple player for .wav and .au files,
15and <userinput>arecord</userinput>, a simple sound recorder.
16</para>
17
18<para>The alsa-oss-lib package (only version 0.9.x) contains a library
19for developers to convert their OSS applications to ALSA.</para>
20
21<para>The alsa-tools package (only version 0.9.x) contains some utlis
22for older cards and for expensive multichannel cards.</para>
23
24</sect2>
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