alsa-tools includes card-specific tools for various soundcards, including firmware loaders for pcmcia and USB devices. This package includes the firmware as well as the loaders (so there's no need for a separate alsa-firmware package like Debian has). This build includes udev rules for the Tascam US-122, US-224, and US-428 USB audio interfaces (which replace the old hotplug scripts shipped with the alsa-tools source). Also included is the SlackBuild author's "tascam-us122-HOWTO" document (see /usr/doc/alsa-tools-$VERSION). Included tools: as10k1 - assembler for emu10k1 DSP chip present in Creative soundcards cspctl - Sound Blaster 16 ASP/CSP control program dl10k1 - loads dumps previously created with lo10k1 & ld10k1 * echomixer - Linux equivalent of the Echoaudio console application * envy24control - Control tool for Envy24 (ice1712) based soundcards hda-verb - send a HD-audio command to an intel-hda hwdep device * hdajackretask - retask the hardware jacks on intel-hda devices * hdspconf - GUI to control the Hammerfall HDSP Alsa Settings hdsploader - firmware loader for the RME Hammerfall DSP cards * hdspmixer - Linux equivalent of the Totalmix application from RME hwmixvolume - hardware mixer control for cards using hardware mixing init_audigy, init_audigy_eq10, init_live - initialize Creative cards ld10k1 - dump patches stored in an EMU10K1/EMU10K2 card ld10k1d - daemon for lo10k1 lo10k1 - EMU10K1 (EMU10K2) patch loader for ALSA mixartloader - Firmware loader for Digigram miXart soundcards pcxhrloader - Firmware loader for Digigram pcxhr compatible soundcards * qlo10k1 - GUI for loading patches on EMU10K1/EMU10K2 cards * rmedigicontrol - control tool for RME Digi32 and RME Digi96 soundcards sbiload - OPL2/3 FM instrument loader for ALSA hwdep sscape_ctl - ALSA SoundScape control utility us428control - Tascam US-428 control surface daemon usx2yloader - 2nd Phase Firmware loader for Tascam USX2Y USB soundcards vxloader - Firmware loader for Digigram VX soundcards (Older versions included the tools "ac3dec" and "extract_ac3", which were removed from 1.0.27, probably for legal reasons) Tools marked with an * are GUI tools that require X. To build on an X-less system, set GUI=no in the environment. Optional dependencies: qt3 - only used for qlo10k1 tool (used for loading patches into emu10k1 cards with a hardware MIDI synth). This tool won't be built, if qt3 is not installed (or QT3=no or GUI=no is set in the environment). fltk - only used for the hdspconf and hdspmixer tools (only useful for Hammerfall HDSP cards). This tool won't be built, if fltk is not installed (or FLTK=no or GUI=no is set in the environment).