ALSA resources

From the ALSA wiki

Latest revision as of 09:35, 27 July 2007

This is a collection of other resources about ALSA than this wiki.

ALSA

Mailing lists

There is a page on the official site about the mailing list.

• alsa-user: subscription - archive

  Write to this list if you need a help with the installation or setup of ALSA packages.

• alsa-devel: subscription - archive before march 2007 - archive since march 2007

  Write to this list if you would like to work on the driver, library or an ALSA application.

Websites

• http://www.alsa-project.org/ -- The official ALSA web site (often not very up to date or complete, that's why this wiki exists)
  • http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page -- Official wiki meant to replace the official website
  • https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=AlsaWiki -- Official wiki for developpers
  • http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php -- Official documentation
  • http://www.alsa-project.org/applications.php3 -- ALSA based applications
  • About the .asoundrc file: [1] - [2] - [3]
  • The Mantis bugtracking system for ALSA: http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/

    When posting to the bug tracker, please include the output of the aadebug script. See Bug tracking for details.

• Two compilations of information and links about ALSA and latency issues under Linux:
  • http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxSoundALSA.html
  • http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxSoundLatency.html
  • http://www.sabi.co.uk/Cfg/ALSA/ -- Some sample asound.conf files, the main one of which is fairly universal (for cards without hardware sharing) and contains an illustration of many advanced techniques

• http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=7 -- List of supported USB devices

• Sound trouble shooting -- Article of the ubuntu wiki

Audio under Linux

Mailing lists

• Linux Audio Users and Developpers (LAU/LAD)

  LAU subscription - LAU archive - LAD subscription - LAD archive

Websites

• http://lau.linuxaudio.org/ -- Linux Audio Users (LAU) -- Collection of HOWTOs and other articles about ALSA and related topics

  See above for their mailing list

• http://www.mstation.org -- News and Information

• A collection links about reverb
  • http://www.audioease.com/IR/index.html
  • http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/discussdetail.asp?TopicID=4092
  • http://www.cksde.com/p_6_250.htm
  • http://purgatorycreek.com/convolution.html
  • http://www.xs4all.nl/~fokkie/IR.htm#Downloads
  • http://www.memi.com/echochamber/responses/index.html
  • http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/
  • http://www.memi.com/echochamber/responses/index.html
  • http://kevindumpscore.com/docs/csound-manual/convolve.html
  • http://noisevault.com/

Other linux related topics

Websites

• http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+newbie+guide
• http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=9713 -- List of usefull basic console commands
• http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html -- Installing software from source in Linux
• http://www.tldp.org/ -- The Linux Documentation Project

Forums

• http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ -- A linux forum with a lot of categories
• http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showforum=9 -- General hardware linux forum

Unavailable resources

The following sites don't seem to work anymore. They are only kept here for completeness' sake. Feel free to remove.

• http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/linux/debian_alsa.html -- Compiling a custom Kernel and ALSA modules for Debian, making Debian packages that live happily with the Debian package management system.
• http://dolby.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/dolby.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php - a description of what dolby /prologic, II, digital 5.1,surround EX 6.1;7.1/ really mean

• Reverb links
  • http://altiverb.daw-mac.com/library.html
  • http://pcangelo.ramsete.com/Public/IMP-RESP/