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6 .TH ALSACONF 8 "February 23, 2003"
9 alsaconf \- configuration tool for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
16 This manual page documents briefly the
19 This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
20 original program does not have a manual page.
22 \fBAlsaconf\fP is a simple shell script which tries to detect the sound cards
23 on your system and writes a suitable configuration file for ALSA. It will try
24 to guess what GNU/Linux distribution you're running, and will act accordingly
25 to the standards of that distribution, if specific support is available.
27 Alsaconf will write a module-init-tools (or modutils) snippet which can be then used by module-init-tools (or modutils)
28 to load the correct parameters for your sound card.
31 Alsaconf accepts the following options:
33 .B \-c, \-\-config file
34 Specify the module config file.
37 probes the available config file automatically.
39 .B \-d, \-\-devmode mode
40 Set the device mode for the ALSA devices (default = 0666).
41 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.
44 Set the gid for the ALSA devices (default = 0).
45 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.
48 Displays this help text.
51 Logging on the given file. The log is appended to the file.
52 This option is for debugging purpose only.
55 Check only for legacy non-isapnp cards.
58 Read module descriptions instead of reading a card database.
61 List the supported legacy card modules.
63 .B \-p, \-\-probe card-name
64 Probe a legacy non-isapnp card and print module options.
67 Set strict device mode (equiv. with \-g 17 \-d 0660).
68 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.
70 .B \-s, \-\-sound\-wav\-file
71 Use the specified wav file as a test sound.
74 Set the uid for the ALSA devices (default = 0).
75 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.
78 In Debian, the default gid of the device files is 29 (corresponding to the
79 audio group) and the default device mode is 0660.
81 For the ALSA base package, see also
82 .I /usr/share/doc/alsa\-base/
93 http://www.alsa\-project.org/
96 The alsaconf script was written by
97 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
98 Bernd Kaindl <bk@suse.de> and
99 Jan Ondrej (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk>
101 This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>,
102 for the Debian system (but may be used by others).