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| .TH ALSACONF 8 "February 23, 2003" |
| |
| .SH NAME |
| alsaconf \- configuration tool for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture |
| |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B alsaconf |
| .RI [ options ] |
| |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| This manual page documents briefly the |
| .B alsaconf |
| command. |
| This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the |
| original program does not have a manual page. |
| .PP |
| \fBAlsaconf\fP is a simple shell script which tries to detect the sound cards |
| on your system and writes a suitable configuration file for ALSA. It will try |
| to guess what GNU/Linux distribution you're running, and will act accordingly |
| to the standards of that distribution, if specific support is available. |
| .PP |
| Alsaconf will write a module-init-tools (or modutils) snippet which can be then used by module-init-tools (or modutils) |
| to load the correct parameters for your sound card. |
| |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| Alsaconf accepts the following options: |
| .TP |
| .B \-c, \-\-config file |
| Specify the module config file. |
| As default, |
| .B alsaconf |
| probes the available config file automatically. |
| .TP |
| .B \-d, \-\-devmode mode |
| Set the device mode for the ALSA devices (default = 0666). |
| This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. |
| .TP |
| .B \-g, \-\-gid gid |
| Set the gid for the ALSA devices (default = 0). |
| This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. |
| .TP |
| .B \-h, \-\-help |
| Displays this help text. |
| .TP |
| .B \-L, \-\-log file |
| Logging on the given file. The log is appended to the file. |
| This option is for debugging purpose only. |
| .TP |
| .B \-l, \-\-legacy |
| Check only for legacy non-isapnp cards. |
| .TP |
| .B \-m, \-\-modinfo |
| Read module descriptions instead of reading a card database. |
| .TP |
| .B \-P, \-\-listprobe |
| List the supported legacy card modules. |
| .TP |
| .B \-p, \-\-probe card-name |
| Probe a legacy non-isapnp card and print module options. |
| .TP |
| .B \-r, \-\-strict |
| Set strict device mode (equiv. with \-g 17 \-d 0660). |
| This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. |
| .TP |
| .B \-s, \-\-sound\-wav\-file |
| Use the specified wav file as a test sound. |
| .TP |
| .B \-u, \-\-uid uid |
| Set the uid for the ALSA devices (default = 0). |
| This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version. |
| |
| .SH DEBIAN SPECIFIC |
| In Debian, the default gid of the device files is 29 (corresponding to the |
| audio group) and the default device mode is 0660. |
| |
| For the ALSA base package, see also |
| .I /usr/share/doc/alsa\-base/ |
| |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| \fB |
| alsamixer(1), |
| amixer(1), |
| aplay(1), |
| arecord(1) |
| \fP |
| |
| .SH HOMEPAGE |
| http://www.alsa\-project.org/ |
| |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| The alsaconf script was written by |
| Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, |
| Bernd Kaindl <bk@suse.de> and |
| Jan Ondrej (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk> |
| |
| This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, |
| for the Debian system (but may be used by others). |