If you have a sound card that supports a CD-ROM or SCSI interface, the
Linux
SCSI HOWTO and the Linux
CD-ROM HOWTO have additional information that may be useful to you.
The
Sound Playing HOWTO describes how to play various types of
sound and music files under Linux.
The FAQs also list several product specific mailing lists
and archive sites. The following Usenet news groups discuss sound
and/or music related issues:
The Linux mailing list has a number of "channels" dedicated
to different topics, including sound. To find out how to join, send a
mail message with the word "help" as the message body to
majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu. These mailing lists are not
recommended for questions on sound card setup etc., they are intended
for development related discussion.
As mentioned several times before, the kernel sound driver includes a
number of Readme files containing useful information about
the sound card driver. These can typically be found in the directory
/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound.
Information on OSS, the commercial sound driver for Linux and other
Unix compatible operating systems, can be found at the 4Front
Technologies web page at
http://www.opensound.com/.
The Linux Software Map (LSM) is an invaluable
reference for locating Linux software. Searching the LSM for keywords
such as sound is a good way to identify applications related
to sound hardware. The LSM can be found on various anonymous FTP
sites, including
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LSM/
(formerly known as sunsite). There are also various web sites that
maintain databases of Linux applications. One such site is
http://www.freshmeat.net.
The Linux Documentation Project has produced several books
on Linux, including Linux Installation and Getting
Started. These are freely available by anonymous FTP from major
Linux archive sites or can be purchased in hardcopy format.
Finally, a shameless plug: If you want to learn a lot more about
multimedia under Linux (especially CD-ROM and sound card applications
and programming), check out my book Linux Multimedia
Guide, ISBN 1-56592-219-0, published by O'Reilly and
Associates. As well as the original English version, French and
Japanese translations are now in print. For details, call 800-998-9938
in North America or check the web page
http://www.ora.com/catalog/multilinux/noframes.html or my home
page
http://www.pobox.com/~tranter.
