Sidux/Useable applications/Sound mixers

ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is a sound system for Linux and provides device drivers for sound cards.

Linux was using OSS (Open Sound System) before and there is new one called PULSE.

Anyway ALSA is a default sound system for sidux and Debian in this moment.

For sound devices managing we'll use sound mixers.

AlsaMixer

AlsaMixer is console application and it is pre-installed with sidux.

To run it type in Terminal as an user:

alsamixer

XFCE4-mixer

One of AlsaMixer GUI is "xfce4-mixer".

Run it from: Menu-> Multimedia-> Mixer.

It's available from desktop panel too: Mixer Plugin.

AlsaMixerGui

It's next AlsaMixer GUI, to install it type:

apt-get install alsamixergui

Run it from: Menu-> Multimedia-> Alsamixergui.

Gnome-alsamixer

If you'd like to try GNOME AlsaMixer GUI, just install it:

apt-get install gnome-alsamixer

Run it: Menu-> Multimedia-> GNOME ALSA Mixer.

ALSA home page: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture