If you have a sound card that supports a CD-ROM or SCSI interface, the
Linux
SCSI HOWTO
and the Linux CD-ROM HOWTO
have additional information that may be useful to you.
The Sound Playing HOWTO
describes how to play various types of sound and music files under Linux.
The
Linux SoundBlaster AWE32/64 Mini-HOWTO
describes how to get a SoundBlaster 32 or 64 card working under Linux.
Programming information is available from the 4Front Technologies web site at
http://www.opensound.com/pguide.
The following FAQs are regularly posted to the Usenet newsgroup
news.announce
as well as being archived at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers:
PCsoundcards/generic-faq (Generic PC Soundcard FAQ)
PCsoundcards/soundcard-faq (comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard FAQ)
PCsoundcards/gravis-ultrasound/faq (Gravis UltraSound FAQ)
audio-fmts/part1 (Audio file format descriptions)
audio-fmts/part2 (Audio file format descriptions)
The FAQs also list several product specific mailing lists
and archive sites. The following Usenet news groups discuss sound
and/or music related issues:
A web site dedicated to multimedia can be found at http://www.scala.com/multimedia/.
Another good site for Linux MIDI and sound applications is
http://sound.condorow.net/.
Creative Labs has a web site at http://www.creaf.com/.
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
majordomo@vger.kernel.org.
As mentioned several times before, the kernel sound driver includes a
number of Readme files containing useful information about
the sound card driver. These can typically be found in the directory
/usr/src/linux/drivers/sound.
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
http://www.opensound.com/.
The Linux Software Map (LSM) is an invaluable
reference for locating Linux software. The LSM home page is at
http://www.ExecPC.com/lsm/.
and there is an on-line browsable version at
http://www.boutell.com/lsm/.
Another great site for finding Linux applications is
http://www.freshmeat.net/.
The Linux Documentation Project has produced several books
on Linux, including Linux Installation and Getting
Started. These are freely available by anonymous FTP from major
Linux archive sites or can be purchased in hardcopy format.
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 Linux Multimedia
Guide, 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
http://www.ora.com/catalog/multilinux/noframes.html.