Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a modularized architecture which
supports quite a large range of ISA and PCI cards.
It's fully compatible with old OSS drivers (either OSS/Lite, OSS/commercial).
To use the features of alsa, one can either use:
- the old OSS api
- the new ALSA api that provides many enhanced features.

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture comes with a kernel API and library API.
This document describes the library API and how it interfaces with the kernel
API. Application programmers should use the library API rather than kernel API.

The Library offers 100% of the functionally of the kernel API, but add next
major improvements in usability, making the application code simpler and better
looking.

This package contains the documentation that describe tha ALSA lib API.