sb(4) [netbsd man page]

SB(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						     SB(4)

NAME

     sb -- SoundBlaster family (and compatible) audio device driver

SYNOPSIS

     sb0    at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 drq2 5
     sb1    at isa? port 0x240 irq 7 drq 1 flags 1
     sb*    at isapnp?
     sb*    at pnpbios? index ?
     audio* at audiobus?
     midi*  at sb?
     mpu*   at sb?
     opl*   at sb?

DESCRIPTION

     The sb driver provides support for the SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster 16, Jazz 16, SoundBlaster AWE 32, SoundBlaster AWE 64,
     and hardware register-level compatible audio cards.

     The SoundBlaster series are half-duplex cards, capable of 8- and 16-bit audio sample recording and playback at rates up to 44.1kHz (depending
     on the particular model).

     The base I/O port address is usually jumper-selected to either 0x220 or 0x240 (newer cards may provide software configuration, but this
     driver does not directly support them--you must configure the card for its I/O addresses with other software).  The SoundBlaster takes 16 I/O
     ports.  For the SoundBlaster and SoundBlaster Pro, the IRQ and DRQ channels are jumper-selected.  For the SoundBlaster 16, the IRQ and DRQ
     channels are set by this driver to the values specified in the config file.  The IRQ must be selected from the set {5,7,9,10}.

     The configuration file must use 1 flags specification to enable the Jazz16 support.  This is to avoid potential conflicts with other devices
     when probing the Jazz 16 because it requires use of extra I/O ports not in the base port range.

     With a SoundBlaster 16 card the device is full duplex, but it can only sensibly handle a precision of 8 bits.  It does so by extending the
     output 8 bit samples to 16 bits and using the 8 bit DMA channel for input and the 16 bit channel for output.

     The joystick interface (if enabled by a jumper) is handled by the joy(4) driver, and the optional SCSI CD-ROM interface is handled by the
     aic(4) driver.

     SoundBlaster 16 cards have MPU401 emulation and can use the mpu attachment, older cards have a different way to generate MIDI and has a midi
     device attached directly to the sb.

SEE ALSO

     aic(4), audio(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), joy(4), midi(4), mpu(4), opl(4), pnpbios(4)

HISTORY

     The sb device driver appeared in NetBSD 1.0.

BUGS

     Non-SCSI CD-ROM interfaces are not supported.

     The MIDI interface on the SB hardware is braindead, and the driver needs to busy wait while writing MIDI data.  This will consume a lot of
     system time.

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GUSPNP(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 GUSPNP(4)

NAME

     guspnp -- Am78C201 audio device driver

SYNOPSIS

     guspnp* at isapnp?
     audio*  at audiobus?

     There should be no limit caused by the driver on the number of drivers or cards active in the system.

DESCRIPTION

     The guspnp driver provides support for audio subsystems using the Interwave (Am78C20x) family of ICs, usually the Gravis Ultrasound Plug and
     Play.  Unlike the gus driver guspnp driver does not require any local memory for the IC, but uses the codec for both playback and recording.
     The guspnp driver can simultaneously playback and record 8- and 16-bit samples at frequencies from 5.51kHz to 48kHz.

     The guspnp driver relies on isapnp to allocate suitable resources for it.	This version of the driver only uses the first logical device of
     the five the Interwave IC has.  The four unused logical devices are the ATAPI CD-ROM device, PnP Joystick device, legacy soundcard emulation
     device (SoundBlaster) and MIDI serial device.  Support for at least ATAPI CD-ROM and Joystick is being worked on.	This version of the driver
     will use 1 IRQ and 2 DRQs.

HARDWARE

     Cards supported by the guspnp driver include:

	   Gravis Ultrasound PNP, and compatibles

SEE ALSO

     audio(4), gus(4), isapnp(4)

REFERENCES

     Interwave(tm) IC Am78C201/202 Programmer's Guide Rev. 2. 1996. Advanced Micro Devices.

HISTORY

     The guspnp driver appeared in NetBSD 1.3.

AUTHORS

     Kari Mettinen <Kari.Mettinen@helsinki.fi>, University of Helsinki.

BUGS

     Sometimes you can cause a hiss on either left or right channel, or both.  You can usually make it disappear by playing random data, however
     this might not be a very nice thing to your audio equipment, but it is the only way I have found out to be effective.

     Only the Codec is used in this version of the driver, therefore only 2 channels are supported (left and right). Also sound quality is proba-
     bly worse at lower kHz compared to playing through the synthesizer which does interpolation.

     If the implementation has a 'bad' oscillator, using frequencies 44.8kHz and 38.4kHz will result in incorrect playback frequency. The author
     has a GUS PnP Pro which displays this behavior.

     Other members of the Interwave family have not been tested and don't have the glue needed to make them work. Should someone need to implement
     it, not many changes in the existing code are needed.  Output voltage control in register CFIG2 [7] should be set differently for some other
     members of the family.

     Other architectures than i386 haven't been tested. The bus_space abstraction has been used from the beginning, so it should work.

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