alsaconf.8 (2964B)
1 .\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- 2 .\" alsaconf.8 is copyright 2003 by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> 3 .\" 4 .\" This is free documentation, see the latest version of the GNU 5 .\" General Public License for copying conditions. There is NO warranty. 6 .TH ALSACONF 8 "February 23, 2003" 7 8 .SH NAME 9 alsaconf \- configuration tool for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 10 11 .SH SYNOPSIS 12 .B alsaconf 13 .RI [ options ] 14 15 .SH DESCRIPTION 16 This manual page documents briefly the 17 .B alsaconf 18 command. 19 This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the 20 original program does not have a manual page. 21 .PP 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. 26 .PP 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. 29 30 .SH OPTIONS 31 Alsaconf accepts the following options: 32 .TP 33 .B \-c, \-\-config file 34 Specify the module config file. 35 As default, 36 .B alsaconf 37 probes the available config file automatically. 38 .TP 39 .B \-d, \-\-devmode mode 40 Set the device mode for the ALSA devices (default = 0666). 41 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. 42 .TP 43 .B \-g, \-\-gid gid 44 Set the gid for the ALSA devices (default = 0). 45 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. 46 .TP 47 .B \-h, \-\-help 48 Displays this help text. 49 .TP 50 .B \-L, \-\-log file 51 Logging on the given file. The log is appended to the file. 52 This option is for debugging purpose only. 53 .TP 54 .B \-l, \-\-legacy 55 Check only for legacy non-isapnp cards. 56 .TP 57 .B \-m, \-\-modinfo 58 Read module descriptions instead of reading a card database. 59 .TP 60 .B \-P, \-\-listprobe 61 List the supported legacy card modules. 62 .TP 63 .B \-p, \-\-probe card-name 64 Probe a legacy non-isapnp card and print module options. 65 .TP 66 .B \-r, \-\-strict 67 Set strict device mode (equiv. with \-g 17 \-d 0660). 68 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. 69 .TP 70 .B \-s, \-\-sound\-wav\-file 71 Use the specified wav file as a test sound. 72 .TP 73 .B \-u, \-\-uid uid 74 Set the uid for the ALSA devices (default = 0). 75 This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. 76 77 .SH DEBIAN SPECIFIC 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. 80 81 For the ALSA base package, see also 82 .I /usr/share/doc/alsa\-base/ 83 84 .SH SEE ALSO 85 \fB 86 alsamixer(1), 87 amixer(1), 88 aplay(1), 89 arecord(1) 90 \fP 91 92 .SH HOMEPAGE 93 http://www.alsa\-project.org/ 94 95 .SH AUTHOR 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> 100 101 This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, 102 for the Debian system (but may be used by others).