Changeset 8c3989b2 for multimedia/libdriv/alsa.xml
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- 09/25/2003 12:34:50 AM (21 years ago)
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multimedia/libdriv/alsa.xml
r2f81a4dd r8c3989b2 1 <sect1 id="alsa" xreflabel=" alsa-&alsa-version;">1 <sect1 id="alsa" xreflabel="ALSA-&alsa-version;"> 2 2 <?dbhtml filename="alsa.html" dir="multimedia"?> 3 <title> alsa-&alsa-version;</title>3 <title>ALSA-&alsa-version;</title> 4 4 5 <para>The first question which people tend to ask about ALSA is why they 6 should use it over the sound drivers included in the kernel - there are 7 several reasons. Firstly, the ALSA drivers support more sound cards 8 than those in the kernel. Secondly, the OSS emulation is in some cases 9 faster and better than the original OSS driver itself. And finally, there are 10 some programs which can use ALSA's enhanced features to better drive the 11 soundcard.</para> 5 <para>The first question which people tend to ask about <acronym>ALSA</acronym> 6 is why they should use it over the sound drivers included in the kernel - there 7 are several reasons. First, the <acronym>ALSA</acronym> drivers support more 8 sound cards than those in the kernel. Second, the <acronym>OSS</acronym> 9 emulation is in some cases faster and better than the original <acronym>OSS 10 </acronym> driver itself. And finally, there are some programs which can use 11 <acronym>ALSA</acronym>'s enhanced features to better drive the soundcard. 12 </para> 12 13 13 <para> ALSA is also likely to be the future of Linux Sound (hence the14 name <emphasis>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</emphasis>), and the 15 ALSA drivers will probably be included into the main linux kernel at 16 some point during the 2.5 development series, leading eventually to ALSA 17 being the "standard" sound drivers into the future 2.6 stable 18 kernel.</para>14 <para><acronym>ALSA</acronym> is also likely to be the future of Linux Sound 15 (hence the name <emphasis>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture</emphasis>), and 16 the <acronym>ALSA</acronym> drivers will probably be included into the main 17 linux kernel at some point during the 2.5 development series, leading 18 eventually to <acronym>ALSA</acronym> being the "standard" sound drivers into 19 the future 2.6 stable kernel.</para> 19 20 20 21 <para>The following five sections of the book deal with the five separate 21 components of alsa: the drivers, the libraries, the utilities, the tools and 22 the OSS compatibility libraries.</para> 22 components of <acronym>ALSA</acronym>: the drivers, the libraries, the 23 utilities, the tools and the <acronym>OSS</acronym> compatibility libraries. 24 </para> 23 25 24 26 </sect1>
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