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37.Dd June 22, 2005
38.Dt GUSPNP 4
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm guspnp
41.Nd Am78C201 audio device driver
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "guspnp* at isapnp?"
44.Cd "audio*  at audiobus?"
45.Pp
46There should be no limit caused by the driver on the number of drivers
47or cards active in the system.
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm guspnp
51driver provides support for audio subsystems using the Interwave (Am78C20x)
52family of ICs, usually the Gravis Ultrasound Plug and Play.
53Unlike the
54.Nm gus
55driver guspnp driver does not require any local memory for the IC, but uses
56the codec for both playback and recording.
57The
58.Nm guspnp
59driver can simultaneously playback and record 8- and 16-bit samples at
60frequencies from 5.51kHz to 48kHz.
61.Pp
62The
63.Nm guspnp
64driver relies on
65.Nm isapnp
66to allocate suitable resources for it.
67This version of the driver only
68uses the first logical device of the five the Interwave IC has.
69The four unused
70logical devices are the ATAPI CD-ROM device, PnP Joystick device, legacy
71soundcard emulation device (SoundBlaster) and MIDI serial device.
72Support
73for at least ATAPI CD-ROM and Joystick is being worked on.
74This version of the driver will use 1 IRQ and 2 DRQs.
75.Sh HARDWARE
76Cards supported by the
77.Nm
78driver include:
79.Pp
80.Bl -item -offset indent
81.It
82.Tn Gravis
83Ultrasound PNP, and compatibles
84.El
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr audio 4 ,
87.Xr gus 4 ,
88.Xr isapnp 4
89.Sh REFERENCES
90Interwave(tm) IC Am78C201/202 Programmer's Guide Rev. 2. 1996. Advanced
91Micro Devices.
92.Sh HISTORY
93The
94.Nm guspnp
95driver appeared in
96.Nx 1.3 .
97.Sh AUTHORS
98.An Kari Mettinen Aq Kari.Mettinen@helsinki.fi ,
99University of Helsinki.
100.Sh BUGS
101Sometimes you can cause a hiss on either left or right channel, or both.
102You can usually make it disappear by playing random data, however this
103might not be a very nice thing to your audio equipment, but it is the only
104way I have found out to be effective.
105.Pp
106Only the Codec is used in this version of the driver, therefore only 2
107channels are supported (left and right). Also sound quality is probably
108worse at lower kHz compared to playing through the synthesizer which does
109interpolation.
110.Pp
111If the implementation has a 'bad' oscillator, using frequencies 44.8kHz
112and 38.4kHz will result in incorrect playback frequency. The author has
113a GUS PnP Pro which displays this behavior.
114.Pp
115Other members of the Interwave family have not been tested and don't
116have the glue needed to make them work. Should someone need to implement it,
117not many changes in the existing code are needed.
118Output voltage control in
119register CFIG2 [7] should be set differently for some other members of the
120family.
121.Pp
122Other architectures than i386 haven't been tested. The bus_space abstraction
123has been used from the beginning, so it should work.
124