376 lines
9.8 KiB
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376 lines
9.8 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 1998, Luigi Rizzo
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 24, 2004
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.Dt PCM 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pcm ,
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.Nm snd
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.Nd
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.Fx
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PCM audio device infrastructure
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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For a card with bridge driver support, and a PnP card:
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.Cd "device pcm"
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.Pp
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For a card without bridge driver support, and a non-PnP card,
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the following lines may be required in
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.Pa /boot/device.hints :
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.Cd hint.pcm.0.at="isa"
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.Cd hint.pcm.0.irq="5"
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.Cd hint.pcm.0.drq="1"
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.Cd hint.pcm.0.flags="0x0"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides support for
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.Tn PCM
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audio play and capture.
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This driver also supports various
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.Tn PCI ,
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.Tn WSS/MSS
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compatible,
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.Tn ISA
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sound cards, and AC97 mixer.
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Once the
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.Nm
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driver attaches, supported devices provide audio record and
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playback channels.
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The
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.Fx
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sound system provides dynamic mixing
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.Dq VCHAN
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and rate conversion
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.Dq soft formats .
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True full duplex operation is available on most cards.
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.Pp
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If the sound card is supported by a bridge driver, the
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.Nm
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driver works in conjunction with the bridge driver.
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.Pp
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Apart from the usual parameters, the flags field is used to specify
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the secondary
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.Tn DMA
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channel (generally used for capture in full duplex cards).
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Flags are set to 0 for cards not using a secondary
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.Tn DMA
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channel, or to 0x10 + C to specify channel C.
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.Pp
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The driver works best with
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.Tn WSS/MSS
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cards, which have a very clean
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architecture and an orthogonal set of features.
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They also happen to be
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among the cheapest audio cards on the market.
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.Pp
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The driver does its best to recognize the installed hardware and drive
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it correctly so the user is not required to add several lines in
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.Pa /boot/device.hints .
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For
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.Tn PCI
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and
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.Tn ISA
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.Tn PnP
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cards this is actually easy
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since they identify themselves.
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For legacy
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.Tn ISA
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cards, the driver looks for
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.Tn MSS
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cards at addresses 0x530 and 0x604 (unless overridden
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in
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.Pa /boot/device.hints ) .
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.Ss Boot Variables
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In general, the module
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.Pa snd_foo
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corresponds to
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.Cd "device foo"
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and can be
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loaded by the boot
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.Xr loader 8
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via
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.Xr loader.conf 5
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or from the command line using the
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.Xr kldload 8
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utility.
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Options which can be specified in
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.Pa /boot/loader.conf
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include:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Va snd_emu10k1_load" -offset indent
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.It Va snd_driver_load
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.Pq Dq Li NO
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If set to
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.Dq Li YES ,
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this option loads all available drivers.
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.It Va snd_emu10k1_load
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.Pq Dq Li NO
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If set to
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.Dq Li YES ,
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only the SoundBlaster 5.1 driver and dependent modules will be loaded.
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.It Va snd_foo_load
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.Pq Dq Li NO
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If set to
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.Dq Li YES ,
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load driver for card/chipset foo.
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.El
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.Pp
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To define default values for the different mixer channels,
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set the channel to the prefered value using hints, e.g.:
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.Va hint.pcm.0.line Ns = Ns Qq Li 0 .
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This will mute the input channel per default.
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.Ss VCHANs
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Each device can optionally support more playback channels
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that physical hardware provides by using
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.Dq virtual channels
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or
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.Tn VCHANs .
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.Tn VCHAN
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options can be configured via the
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.Xr sysctl 8
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interface but can only be manipulated while the device is inactive.
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.Ss Runtime Configuration
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The following
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variables are available:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Va hw.snd.report_soft_formats" -offset indent
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.It Va hw.snd.pcm%d.buffersize
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Configure the amount of
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.Tn DMA
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bufferspace available for a device.
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.It Va hw.snd.targetirqrate
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Set the default block size such that continuous
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playback will achieve this
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.Tn IRQ
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rate.
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This value can be tuned to improve application performance.
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Increase this value when the sound lags and decrease
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it if sound stutters or breaks up.
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.It Va hw.snd.unit
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When using
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.Xr devfs 5 ,
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the default device for
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.Pa /dev/dsp .
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Equivalent to a symlink from
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.Pa /dev/dsp
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to
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.Pa /dev/dsp Ns Va ${hw.snd.unit} .
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.It Va hw.snd.report_soft_formats
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Controls the internal format conversion if it is
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available transparently to the application software.
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When disabled or not available, the application will
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only be able to select formats the device natively supports.
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.It Va hw.snd.verbose
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Level of verbosity for the
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.Pa /dev/sndstat
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device.
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Higher values include more output and the highest level,
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three, should be used when reporting problems.
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Other options include:
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.Bl -tag -width 2n
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.It 0
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Installed devices and their allocated bus resources.
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.It 1
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The number of playback, record, virtual channels, and
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flags per device.
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.It 2
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Channel information per device including the channel's
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current format, speed, and pseudo device statistics such as
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buffer overruns and buffer underruns.
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.It 3
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File names and versions of the currently sound loaded modules.
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.El
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.It Va hw.snd.maxautovchans
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Global
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.Tn VCHAN
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setting that only affects devices that have only one playback channel.
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The sound system will dynamically create up this many
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.Tn VCHANs .
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Set to
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.Dq 0
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if no
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.Tn VCHANS
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are desired.
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.It Va hw.snd.pcm%d.vchans
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The current number of
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.Tn VCHANs
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allocated per device.
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This can be set to preallocate a certain number of
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.Tn VCHANs .
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Setting this value to
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.Dq 0
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will disable
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.Tn VCHANs
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for this device.
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.El
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.Ss Recording Channels
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On devices that have more than one recording source (ie: mic and line),
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there is a corresponding
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.Pa /dev/dspr%d.%d
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device.
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.Ss Statistics
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Channel statistics are only kept while the device is open.
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So with situations involving overruns and underruns, consider the output
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while the errant application is open and running.
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.Ss IOCTL Support
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The driver supports most of the
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.Tn OSS
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.Fn ioctl
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functions, and most applications work unmodified.
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A few differences exist, while memory mapped playback is
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supported natively and in
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.Tn Linux
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emulation, memory mapped recording is
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not due to
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.Tn VM
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system design.
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As a consequence, some applications may need to be recompiled
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with a slightly modified audio module.
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See
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.In sys/soundcard.h
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for a complete list of the supported
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.Fn ioctl
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functions.
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.Ss Supported Cards
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Below we include a list of supported codecs/cards.
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If your sound card
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is not listed here, it may be supported by a bridge driver.
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.Bl -tag -width 2m
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.It CS4237, CS4236, CS4232, CS4231 (ISA)
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All these cards work perfectly in full duplex using the MSS mode.
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This chipset is used, among others, on the A/Open AW35 and AW32, on
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some Intel motherboards, and (the CS4231) on some non-PnP cards.
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.Pp
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The CS4232 is reported as buggy in the Voxware documentation but
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I am not sure if this is true.
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On one of my Intel motherboards,
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capture does not work simply because the capture DMA channel is
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not wired to the ISA DMA controller.
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.It Yamaha OPL-SAx (ISA)
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Works perfectly in all modes.
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This chip is used in several PnP cards,
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but also (in non-PnP mode) on motherboards and laptops (e.g., the
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Toshiba Libretto).
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.It OPTi931 (ISA)
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The chip is buggy, but the driver has many workarounds to make it work
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in full duplex because for some time these were the only full duplex
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cards I could find.
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U-law format uses U8 format internally because of
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a bug in the chip.
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.It Trident 4DWave DX/NX (PCI)
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.It ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370/1371 (PCI)
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Creative Labs SoundBlaster PCI is supported as well.
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.It ESS Solo-1/1E (PCI)
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.It NeoMagic 256AV/ZX (PCI)
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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The
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.Nm
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drivers may create the following
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device nodes:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/audio%d.%d" -compact
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.It Pa /dev/audio%d.%d
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Sparc-compatible audio device.
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.It Pa /dev/dsp%d.%d
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Digitized voice device.
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.It Pa /dev/dspW%d.%d
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Like
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.Pa /dev/dsp ,
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but 16 bits per sample.
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.It Pa /dev/dspr%d.%d
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Should be connected to a record codec.
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.It Pa /dev/sndstat
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Current
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.Nm
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status, including all channels and drivers.
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.El
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.Pp
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The first number in the device node
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represents the unit number of the
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.Nm
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device.
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All
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.Nm
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devices are listed
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in
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.Pa /dev/sndstat .
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Additional messages are sometimes recorded when the
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device is probed and attached, these messages can be viewed with the
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.Xr dmesg 8
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utility.
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Bl -diag
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.It ac97: dac not ready
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AC97 codec is not likely to be accompanied with the sound card.
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.It unsupported subdevice XX
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A device node is not created properly.
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.El
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.Sh BUGS
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Some features of your cards (e.g., global volume control) might not
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be supported on all devices.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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device driver first appeared in
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.Fx 2.2.6
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written by
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.An Luigi Rizzo .
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It was later
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rewritten in
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.Fx 4.0
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by
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.An Cameron Grant .
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The API evolved from the VOXWARE
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standard which later became OSS standard.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr csa 4 ,
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.Xr gusc 4 ,
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.Xr sbc 4 ,
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.Xr devfs 5 ,
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.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
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.Xr dmesg 8 ,
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.Xr kldload 8 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Rs
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.%T "The OSS API"
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.%O "http://www.opensound.com/pguide/oss.pdf"
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.Re
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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.An Luigi Rizzo Aq luigi@iet.unipi.it
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initially wrote the
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.Nm
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device driver and this manual page.
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.An Cameron Grant Aq gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk
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later revised the device driver for
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.Fx 4.0 .
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.An Seigo Tanimura Aq tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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revised this manual page.
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It was then rewritten for
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.Fx 5.2 .
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