Well, ALSA is the acronym for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. ALSA provides audio functionality for Linux operating system. It even has MIDI functionality. ALSA is a fully modularized sound driver. It supports all types of audio interfaces.
To know if you sound card is compatible or not, click here.
To "test" your sound card, click here.
Click here to download.
For documentation, click here.
Typically, the ALSA is already installed in your Ubuntu 10.10 distro or Open SuSe 11.3 distro.Sometimes your desktop/laptop might not play sound files or video files as desired, or there can be no audio output, this is how you configure ALSA in case your sound card is not functioning as expected.
Run terminal and type "/sbin/alsa " where choice can be:
- unload, or
- reload, or
- force-unload, or
- force-reload, or
- suspend, or
- resume
Cheers!!
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