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References</A ></H1 ><P >If you have a sound card that supports a CD-ROM or SCSI interface, the Linux <A HREF="ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/SCSI-HOWTO" TARGET="_top" >SCSI HOWTO</A > and the Linux <A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html" TARGET="_top" >CD-ROM HOWTO</A > have additional information that may be useful to you.</P ><P >The <A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-Playing-HOWTO.html" TARGET="_top" >Sound Playing HOWTO</A > describes how to play various types of sound and music files under Linux.</P ><P >The <A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html" TARGET="_top" >Linux SoundBlaster AWE32/64 Mini-HOWTO</A > describes how to get a SoundBlaster 32 or 64 card working under Linux.</P ><P >Programming information is available from the 4Front Technologies web site at <A HREF="http://www.opensound.com/pguide" TARGET="_top" >http://www.opensound.com/pguide</A >.</P ><P >The following FAQs are regularly posted to the Usenet newsgroup <A HREF="news:news.announce" TARGET="_top" >news.announce</A > as well as being archived at <A HREF="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers" TARGET="_top" >ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers</A >:</P ><P > <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >PCsoundcards/generic-faq (Generic PC Soundcard FAQ)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >PCsoundcards/soundcard-faq (comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard FAQ)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >PCsoundcards/gravis-ultrasound/faq (Gravis UltraSound FAQ)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >audio-fmts/part1 (Audio file format descriptions)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >audio-fmts/part2 (Audio file format descriptions)</P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P >The FAQs also list several product specific mailing lists and archive sites. The following Usenet news groups discuss sound and/or music related issues:</P ><P > <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="news:alt.binaries.sounds" TARGET="_top" >alt.binaries.sounds.*</A > (various groups for posting sound files)</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="news:alt.binaries.multimedia" TARGET="_top" >alt.binaries.multimedia</A > (for posting Multimedia files)</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="news:alt.sb.programmer" TARGET="_top" >alt.sb.programmer</A > (Soundblaster programming topics)</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="news:comp.multimedia" TARGET="_top" >comp.multimedia</A > (Multimedia topics)</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="news:comp.music" TARGET="_top" >comp.music</A > (Computer music theory and research)</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="news:comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard" TARGET="_top" >comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.*</A > (various IBM PC sound card groups)</P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P >A web site dedicated to multimedia can be found at <A HREF="http://www.scala.com/multimedia/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.scala.com/multimedia/</A >. Another good site for Linux MIDI and sound applications is <A HREF="http://sound.condorow.net/" TARGET="_top" >http://sound.condorow.net/</A >. Creative Labs has a web site at <A HREF="http://www.creaf.com/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.creaf.com/</A >.</P ><P >The Linux mailing list has a number of "channels" dedicated to different topics. To find out how to join, send a mail message with the word "help" as the message body to <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@vger.kernel.org" TARGET="_top" >majordomo@vger.kernel.org</A >.</P ><P >As mentioned several times before, the kernel sound driver includes a number of <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >Readme</TT > files containing useful information about the sound card driver. These can typically be found in the directory <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound</TT >.</P ><P >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 <A HREF="http://www.opensound.com/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.opensound.com/</A >.</P ><P >The <EM >Linux Software Map</EM > (LSM) is an invaluable reference for locating Linux software. The LSM home page is at <A HREF="http://www.ExecPC.com/lsm/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.ExecPC.com/lsm/</A >. and there is an on-line browsable version at <A HREF="http://www.boutell.com/lsm/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.boutell.com/lsm/</A >.</P ><P >Another great site for finding Linux applications is <A HREF="http://www.freshmeat.net/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.freshmeat.net/</A >.</P ><P >The Linux Documentation Project has produced several books on Linux, including <EM >Linux Installation and Getting Started</EM >. These are freely available by anonymous FTP from major Linux archive sites or can be purchased in hardcopy format.</P ><P >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 <EM >Linux Multimedia Guide</EM >, 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 <A HREF="http://www.ora.com/catalog/multilinux/noframes.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.ora.com/catalog/multilinux/noframes.html</A >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x504.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Answers To Frequently Asked Questions</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >