The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system.
The official Wiki is located at: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Have a look at sound for troubleshooting suggestions.
Questions tagged [alsa]
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Howto save AlsaMixer settings?
Hello I have tryed out the programm "EarCandy", now I had/have a lot of problems.
At first I did not get any sound and now it is very low volume. PS Earcandy is now deleted from my harddisk.
When Im opening the Alsamixer with:
alsamixer
I see that…
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ALSA samples capture: cannot open device
I'm quite new to Linux (Lubuntu 12.04 for sake of precision) and ALSA programming at all.
I'm trying to write a C program to capture audio from internal PC microphone for processing it.
So as first step I google a bit and I found this article for…
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How do I get sound working in Unreal Tournament 2004?
I'm playing UT2004 FOR linux but if I run it with plain
./ut2004
I've no sound in it, if I run it with
aoss ./ut2004
using in such way the ALSA-Oss library, the game often crash - I suppose - with
WARNING: ALC_EXT_capture is subject to…
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Boss GT-100 on Ubuntu 12.04
I wish to use BOSS GT-100 for recording some sound in Ubuntu 12.04. When I connect this device via usb and power it on, I see it in lsusb, but it seems that it is not recognized to be an audio device. I followed these instructions: Boss GT-100 on…
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Earphone jack not working on Samsung All-in-one PC
I have looked at the answers given in the forum, but it seems one needs pc-specific solutions?
Ubuntu 15.10 installed on a Samsung DP500A2D All-in-one-pc
Here are the alsa…
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'arecord' generating blank files with size 44kb
Linux c6a811x-evm 2.6.37 #1 Sat May 7 16:05:26 IST 2016 armv7l unknown
The output of arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: EVM [TI81XX EVM], device 0: AIC3X tlv320aic3x-hifi-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice…
JACOB DEEPAK
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Alsa for Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
How can find what version of Alsa is installed and update it to the latest version
Google search shows very very old suggestions which do not work
Alsa official website does not provide any information suitable for end users who are new to this,…
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Why don't changes in my alsamixer equalizer have any effect?
I have moved all of the sliders all the way up and all the way down, and nothing changes.
Thanks for any help.
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After Installing Ubuntu 16.04 Two days ago I have no sound at all (youtube,loadspeaker or headphones)
After download and installation I have no sound at all anywhere (headphoneś loudspeakers ) The system seems to be working other than that. Can anyone tell me how to access the sound settings so that I can check them out? Thankś for any advice you…
Johnkers
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Use soundcard native rates only in alsa
Have ubuntustdio latest rolling release and a audigy rx soundcard. I disabled pulseaudio and setup alsa to use hw:0,0. Whenever I test this with speaker-test, no matter the rate I choose, even invented rates, the requested rate apparently is used…
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Errors in building pd-extended
I get errors, likely related to alsa, when building from source pure data extended
(the last version - ) on ODROID C2, running Ubuntu 16.04.
To build I simply followed the instructions listed on the puredata.info
(cd pure-data/packages/linux_make…
L_T
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aplay -l doesn't see my loopback sound card
I want the only device on this headless system to be the loopback audio. One application will produce audio that will serve as the input to a streaming server.
But aplay -l (and other programs that enumerate audio devices) don't see it
$ ls -l…
Moishe Pipik
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Problems with Alsa driver installation
I'm struggling with trying to install the sound driver from alsa. I'm getting the following error:
The file /lib/modules/3.13.0-35-generic/build/include/INCLUDE_VERSION_H does not exist
What are my options?
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Ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit) Sound Dummy Output
I am running a Gateway, Model: 566GE, and I installed ubuntu on it. but the sound is saying dummy output.
here is the !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.61 Link:
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=0acb2f3723a9dda3b2c7162d7428d555e1413c65
here is my…
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Alsamixer missing controls after upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04
We previously loaded Ubuntu 10.04 on our Q7 intel platform + custom hardware that uses the Intel HDA sound card. Sound worked well.
We changed to 12.04 yesterday and have output (speaker) sound, but no "line" input sound. Interestingly, alsamixer…
Wes Miller
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