ALSACONF(8) System Manager's Manual ALSACONF(8)

# [NAME](#NAME)

alsaconf - configuration tool for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**alsaconf** \[*options*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This manual page documents briefly the **alsaconf** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**Alsaconf** is a simple shell script which tries to detect the sound cards on your system and writes a suitable configuration file for ALSA. It will try to guess what GNU/Linux distribution you're running, and will act accordingly to the standards of that distribution, if specific support is available.

Alsaconf will write a module-init-tools (or modutils) snippet which can be then used by module-init-tools (or modutils) to load the correct parameters for your sound card.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

Alsaconf accepts the following options:

[**-c, --config file**](#c,)

Specify the module config file. As default, **alsaconf** probes the available config file automatically.

[**-d, --devmode mode**](#d,)

Set the device mode for the ALSA devices (default = 0666). This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.

[**-g, --gid gid**](#g,)

Set the gid for the ALSA devices (default = 0). This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.

[**-h, --help**](#h,)

Displays this help text.

[**-L, --log file**](#L,)

Logging on the given file. The log is appended to the file. This option is for debugging purpose only.

[**-l, --legacy**](#l,)

Check only for legacy non-isapnp cards.

[**-m, --modinfo**](#m,)

Read module descriptions instead of reading a card database.

[**-P, --listprobe**](#P,)

List the supported legacy card modules.

[**-p, --probe card-name**](#p,)

Probe a legacy non-isapnp card and print module options.

[**-r, --strict**](#r,)

Set strict device mode (equiv. with -g 17 -d 0660). This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.

[**-s, --sound-wav-file**](#s,)

Use the specified wav file as a test sound.

[**-u, --uid uid**](#u,)

Set the uid for the ALSA devices (default = 0). This option is obsolete in the recent ALSA version.

# [DEBIAN SPECIFIC](#DEBIAN_SPECIFIC)

In Debian, the default gid of the device files is 29 (corresponding to the audio group) and the default device mode is 0660.

For the ALSA base package, see also */usr/share/doc/alsa-base/*

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

**[alsamixer(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/alsa-utils/alsamixer.1),** **[amixer(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/alsa-utils/amixer.1),** **[aplay(1)](/man/enterprise-packages/alsa-utils/aplay.1),** [**arecord(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/alsa-utils/arecord.1)

# [HOMEPAGE](#HOMEPAGE)

http://www.alsa-project.org/

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

The alsaconf script was written by Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Bernd Kaindl <bk@suse.de> and Jan Ondrej (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk>

This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

February 23, 2003

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Document: alsaconf(8) from alsa-utils 1.2.16-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils