alsa-tools includes card-specific tools for various soundcards, including firmware loaders for pcmcia and USB devices. This package includes the firmware as well as the loaders (so there's no need for a separate alsa-firmware package like Debian has). This build includes udev rules for the Tascam US-122, US-224, and US-428 USB audio interfaces (which replace the old hotplug scripts shipped with the alsa-tools source). Also included is the SlackBuild author's "tascam-us122-HOWTO" document (see /usr/doc/alsa-tools-$VERSION). Included tools: ac3dec - simple AC3 stream decoder as10k1 - assembler for the emu10k1 DSP chip present in Creative soundcards cspctl - Sound Blaster 16 ASP/CSP control program dl10k1 - loads dumps previously created with lo10k1 & ld10k1 echomixer - Linux equivalent of the Echoaudio console application envy24control - Control tool for Envy24 (ice1712) based soundcards extract_ac3 - extract AC3 streams from VOB files hdspconf - GUI to control the Hammerfall HDSP Alsa Settings hdsploader - firmware loader for the RME Hammerfall DSP cards hdspmixer - Linux equivalent of the Totalmix application from RME hwmixvolume - hardware mixer control for cards using hardware mixing init_audigy, init_audigy_eq10, init_live - initialize Creative cards ld10k1 - dump patches stored in an EMU10K1/EMU10K2 card ld10k1d - daemon for lo10k1 lo10k1 - EMU10K1 (EMU10K2) patch loader for ALSA mixartloader - Firmware loader for Digigram miXart soundcards pcxhrloader - Firmware loader for Digigram pcxhr compatible soundcards qlo10k1 - GUI for loading patches on EMU10K1/EMU10K2 cards rmedigicontrol - control tool for RME Digi32 and RME Digi96 soundcards sbiload - OPL2/3 FM instrument loader for ALSA hwdep sscape_ctl - ALSA SoundScape control utility us428control - Tascam US-428 control surface daemon usx2yloader - 2nd Phase Firmware loader for Tascam USX2Y USB soundcards vxloader - Firmware loader for Digigram VX soundcards One of the tools (qlo10k1) uses Qt3. If you need this tool, install qt3, and pass QT3=yes in the environment for alsa-tools.SlackBuild. This requires fltk.