A closer look at the

Open Sound System

Michael Glickman michg@alphalink.com.au

Presented at Linux Users Victoria (LUV) group
Melbourne. Australia. 07-Dec-99

These notes are available from:
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~michg/luv/oss.html
http://acelin.webjump.com/luv/oss.html
http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/linux_sound/

CONTENTS

• Open Sound System
• Linux Sound Driver
• Alternative sound drivers for Linux
• PC speaker with Linux
• HOW SOUND CARD WORKS
  • FM Synthesis
  • MIDI
  • DSP
  • Wave table
• Terms
• SOUND SUPPORT WITH LINUX
  • Structure of Sound Driver in kernels 2.0 and 2.1
    
  • Sound driver as a module. Loading modules manually
    
  • A prefered way of module configuration. Aliases.
  • Automatic (on-demand) loading of modules.
  • Plug-and-Play sound cards
  • Sound devices
  • Testing sound driver.
• APPLICATIONS.
• WHAT ELSE TO READ