ALSA 1.0.24 Has Arrived, Bringing Better Linux Audio

"ALSA 1.0.23 was released in April 2010 as a major update to the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, but it's finally been outdone by ALSA 1.0.24. The ALSA 1.0.24 update is also very significant and delivers on quite a number of sound card / audio processor driver improvements.

"When looking over the 1.0.24 change-log at ALSA-Project.org, a number of changes stick out.

"To the C-Media CMI8788 driver, which is used by a number of high-end sound cards, there is now support for the Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim, Xonar DG, X-Meridian 2G, Kuroutoshikou CMI8787-HG2PCI..."

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