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27.Dd August 25, 2020
28.Dt ESS 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm ess
32.Nd ESS Technology AudioDrive family audio device driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "ess*   at isapnp?"
35.Cd "ess*   at pnpbios? index ?"
36.Cd "ess*   at ofisa?"
37.Cd "audio* at audiobus?"
38.Cd "opl*   at ess?"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42driver provides support for the ESS 1788, 1888, 1887, and 888 AudioDrive
43audio devices.
44.Pp
45The AudioDrive 1788 is a half-duplex device, while the 1888, 1887, and
46888 are full-duplex. All are capable of 8- and 16-bit audio sample
47recording and playback at rates up to 44.1kHz.
48.Pp
49The AudioDrive takes 16 I/O ports. The I/O port range, IRQ, and DRQ
50channels are set by the driver to the values specified in the
51configuration file (or for isapnp, pnpbios, or ofisa, the values
52assigned from the firmware).
53The I/O port base must be one of 0x220, 0x230, 0x240,
540x250. The IRQ must be one of 5, 7, 9, 10 (or 15 on the 1887
55only). The first DRQ channel must be selected from 0, 1, 3. The second
56DRQ channel (used for playback by the full-duplex 1888/1887, ignored
57by the 1788) can additionally be set to 5. If both DRQ channels are
58used they must be different.
59.Pp
60The joystick interface (if enabled) is handled by the
61.Xr joy 4
62driver.
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr audio 4 ,
65.Xr isapnp 4 ,
66.Xr joy 4 ,
67.Xr ofisa 4 ,
68.Xr opl 4 ,
69.Xr i386/pnpbios 4
70.Sh HISTORY
71The
72.Nm
73device driver appeared in
74.Nx 1.4 .
75.Sh BUGS
76The AudioDrive devices have a SoundBlaster compatibility mode, and may
77be detected by the SoundBlaster driver (see
78.Xr sb 4 )
79rather than the AudioDrive driver. The workaround is to remove the
80SoundBlaster driver from the kernel configuration.
81