ALSA Questions

[Thomas H. George]

First, It works fine.

Second, it wasn't easy to set up.  I followed the instructions in 
kernel-source-2.6.3/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt but 
wavp sample.wav resulted in a message that
initialization of DSP failed.  Eventually I ran apt-cache search alsa 
and from the long list selected and installed alsa-utils.  This asked me 
to select  a sound card.  I had built the kernel with emu10k1 as a 
module and after I had selected this from the utils options and rebooted 
sound worked. 

      Question:  Is there a more complete discussion of ALSA setup?

   Question: Is alsadriver now built in?  alsa-utils recommended 
alsadriver but apt-get install alsadriver lists modules for 2.4.16.

Finally, with kernel-2.4.22 I was using setmixer, workbone and wavp so I 
worked at getting these working with kernel-2.6.3.  There are references 
to alsamixer but the apt-cache search turned up only alsamixergui which 
apt-cache show alsamixergui explains that this is just an overlay to 
alsamixer.

   Question:  What package contains alsamixer?  Is there any reason to 
switch since setmixer works fine?

Just curious

Tom

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