Chapter 11. Acknowledgements

Amongst scores of people and not in any particular order here are few of them to whom i would like to say thank you to:

To JÖrn Nettingsmeier, for stepping in at the right moment to edit this HOW-TO. I am indebted to him.
To Patrick, for his valuable inputs, and for helping in updating this documentation to reflect the latest changes especially the card modules.
To Takashi Iwai, for his invaluable inputs, patience and for being there.
To Jaroslav,Abramo,Pual Burton Davis, and the rest
Alsa Website
To Mark Gallassi for his phenomenally brilliant starting point
Docbook Tutorial
To Norman Walsh for his stylesheets and the rest of the people behind DocBook, Jade, psgml , jade TeX,
To Valentijn Sessink for his Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO.

Without music it wouldn't have been possible for me to have written this manual ,it does get on your nerves sometimes. I would like to mention that this document will be maintained in a limited way since at the time of writing this manual Alsa was in for a major version overhaul which is expected to have a whole lot of new features and changes as well .So maintainence will be to that extent, it will be related to bug fixes ,tweaks etc which will be reflected in this document .

Any kind of feedback, bouquets and brickbat are welcome but only that not anything related to alsa drivers since my knowledge is restricted to my and maybe one or two more cards ,it will only add to my frustration that i am in no position to be of some assistance.

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