Getting sound configured in Linux can be a nightmare. Rescue is on the way in the form of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Jim McIntyre is here to walk you through installing and configuring ...

Load the Alsa Loopback driver: sudo modprobe snd_aloop. You should see it listed as a sound card when you type aplay -l card 1: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM] Subdevices: 8 ...

Linux 6.17-rc7 is out, and it's looking good. The latest release candidate is full of small, random changes across various ...

Many Firefox users on Linux were left without the ability to play sound in their browser after updating to Firefox 52, released last week. The issue at the heart of this problem is that Mozilla ...

Linux audio may be confusing for the uninitiated. As a system that has evolved and spawned at least two independent branches over time it tends to produce results that surprise or irritate the user.

[Johannes 4GNU_Linux] has been filming a video series on how to write Linux device drivers for a couple of years now, but luckily, you won’t need that long to watch them or to create your own driver.

With the purchase of my latest computer, installing Linux turned into a nightmare from Hell. The graphics drivers are probably the biggest issue that anyone with a newer computer will run into when ...

Once upon a time (and it wasn't that long ago), if you wanted to do real, low-latency work with audio on Linux, you faced serious trouble. That's no longer true. PipeWire 1.0, an audio/video software ...

A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having ...