[Preston] Detection of Sound Cards

[Richard Revis]

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On Friday 23 Jan 2004 6:29 pm, Andrew King wrote:
> What do people use to set up sound cards under Linux these days?

I think pretty much everyone uses ALSA these days.

Even if you don't use Gentoo their desktop and/or ALSA configuration guide is 
an excellent resource.

It takes ~5 min to set up manually with 2.6 - compile in ALSA support for your 
card, install the userland tools, reboot or modprobe as appropriate, run 
alsamixer to unmute the channel. It isn't much more complicated in 2.4 but 
you need to ensure you have the right options selected - check in the Gentoo 
ALSA guide for more information.

A great plus was that moving from 2.4 to 2.6 for me didn't break the sound at 
all, it worked fine with the same userland tools etc.

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