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1 What is ALSA</a>
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The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI
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Logically ALSA consists of these components:
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<li>A set of kernel drivers.
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These drivers are responsible for handling the physical sound
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hardware from within the Linux kernel, and have been the standard
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sound implementation in Linux since kernel version 2.5
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<li>A kernel level API for manipulating the ALSA devices.
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<li>A user-space C library for simplified access to the sound hardware
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