alsa-base | ALSA driver configuration files | Mehr ...
This package contains various configuration files for the ALSA drivers. . For ALSA to work on a system with a given sound card, there must be an ALSA driver for that card in the kernel. Linux 2.6 as shipped in linux-image packages contains ALSA drivers for all supported sound cards in the form of loadable modules. For either Linux 2.6 or Linux 2.4 a custom alsa-modules package can be built from the sources in the alsa-source package using the make-kpkg utility (included in the kernel-package package). Some pre-built alsa-modules packages are available in the Debian archive. Please read the README.Debian file for information about loading modules. . ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. http://alsa.sourceforge.net OSS is the free version of the Open Sound System.
This package contains the source code for the ALSA drivers. The source code can be compiled into an alsa-modules package using the make-kpkg utility (available in the kernel-package package). Please note that the kernel headers must be installed to compile these modules. . ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
linux-sound-base | base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems | Mehr ...
This package allows the administrator to choose between the OSS and ALSA sound systems.
