ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ) is an API of audio functions for the linux platform.

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Is there any gnome-shell mixer icon relying on alsa and not pulseaudio?

So, long story short, when I installed Mint 12 on my Dell laptop I realized my HDA-intel sound board have problems with pulseaudio. I uninstalled pulseaudio and got my sound back, but removing ...
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Saving alsa settings

After a new update, there is no sound by default in my Debian Squeeze box until running alsactl init, but whenever rebooting the computer I have to run the command again to gain sound. How can I ...
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Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 - crackling sound

I am very new user to the Linux world. I istalled newest Ubuntu on my old ASUS A7CC laptop. I would like to use also my older external sound interface Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1. I am able to ...
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Linux via Buildroot doesn't include alsa-utils

After following these instructions from here and from here, my booted Linux does not include ALSA-Utils like "aplay". But I have set all ALSA options. Any idea what's wrong? I also found this but I ...
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How to configure buildroot to add a sound device?

I've used a given board configuration to reconfigure it for my individual board. My board has a CS4270 sound device of Cirrus Logic. My uImage is booting successfully on my target hardware, but an ...
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Adding usb audio device causes no sound with flash player on archlinux x86_64 with pulseaudio

I added two USB audio devices (from my broken i686 archlinux) to my x86_64 systemd archlinux, a Logitech webcam/mike and a Logitech mike. After this, no sound from flashplugin, either Firefox 11.2… ...
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Sound not working in Debian except in google chrome and test utilities

Yesterday, I had Archlinux on my Dell Latitude E6520 and the sound was working perfectly fine (I even had the loud beep I couldn't get rid of). Today, I installed Debian and alsa. The first surprise ...
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Choppy sound with flashpayer

After a number of updates, including upgrading to flashplayer 11 and kernel 3.8.2 sound from flashplayer and skype has become choppy. Setup In my setup I have .ascoundrc set up to use pulseaudio ...
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Setting up surround sound with optical out

I have centos 6.3 running on this pc. the built in sound card is detected normally and is a 7.1 card with all speakers listed. It includes a optical out as well as hdmi for the built in video. It ...
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Why is this ALSA configuration file preventing aplay and arecord from listing PCM devices?

In my embedded system I have this configuration file in /etc/asound.conf: pcm_slave.sl2 { pcm "hw:0,0" rate 48000 channels 2 format S16_LE } pcm.rate_convert { ...
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alsa and 5.1 surround through three front stereo jacks on the Dell Studio XPS 13

I know this is not a tech support forum, but I am not etting an answer from alsa people and have tried much, if not everything. I can upload the alsa-info output if needed, but here is the info ...
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Why does Arch Linux keep Windows headphone mute

I have an Windows 7 installed, and headphones works perfectly. Few days ago, I have Arch Linux installed along with Win7. headphone works fine under Arch Linux but When I turned to Win7 from ...
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problem with alsa installed

I'm using linux for the first time. I installed alsa 1.0.24 in my system running Ubuntu 12.04. After installing, I tried to play some files using command aplay -vv abc.wav, it started playing but I ...
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Is there an easy way to switch playback soundcards?

I recently purchased the roccat kulo headset which comes with a nice USB soundcard, completely functional under linux :). Howsoever I now struggle to easily siwtch between my laptops integrated ...
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How to make front audio jack work again after waking up from suspend?

Sometimes, after I wake up from suspend (using pm-suspend), the front audio jack stops working (no sound) after I wake up my laptop. Only after a full reboot I get it to work again. My laptop is an ...