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37.Dd Oct 5, 1997
38.Dt guspnp 4 "Am78C201 device driver" "Version 1.0"
39.Sh NAME
40guspnp \- Am78C201 device driver
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Cd "guspnp* at isapnp?"
43.Cd "audio*  at guspnp?"
44.Pp
45There should be no limit caused by the driver on the number of drivers
46or cards active in the system.
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm guspnp
50driver provides support for audiosubsystems using the Interwave (Am78C20x)
51family of ICs, usually the Gravis Ultrasound Plug and Play. Unlike the
52.Nm gus
53driver guspnp driver does not require any local memory for the IC, but uses
54the codec for both playback and recording. The
55.Nm guspnp
56driver can simultaneously playback and record 8- and 16-bit samples at
57frequencies from 5.51kHz to 48kHz.
58.Pp
59The
60.Nm guspnp
61driver relies on
62.Nm isapnp
63to allocate suitable resources for it. This version of the driver only
64uses the first logical device of 5 the interwave IC has. The 4 Unused
65logical devices are ATAPI CD-ROM device, PnP Joystick device, Legacy
66soundcard emulation device (Soundblaster) and MIDI serial device. Support
67for atleast ATAPI CD-ROM and Joystick is being worked on.
68This version of the driver will use 1 IRQ and 2 DRQs.
69.Sh BUGS
70Sometimes you can cause a hiss on either left or right channel, or both.
71You can usually make it disappear by playing random data, however this
72might not be a very nice thing to your audio equipment, but it is the only
73way I have found out to be effective.
74.Pp
75Only the Codec is used in this version of the driver, therefore only 2
76channels are supported (left and right). Also sound quality is propably
77worse at lower kHz compared to playing through the synthesizer which does
78interpolation.
79.Pp
80If the implementation has a 'bad' oscillator, using frequencies 44.8kHz
81and 38.4kHz will result in incorrect playback frequency. The author has
82a GUS PnP Pro which displays this behaviour.
83.Pp
84Other members of the Interwave family have not been tested and don't
85have the glue needed to make them work. Should someone need to implement it,
86not many changes in the existing code are needed. Output voltage control in
87register CFIG2 [7] should be set differently for some other members of the
88family.
89.Pp
90Other architectures than i386 haven't been tested. The bus_space abstraction
91has been used from the beginning, so it should work.
92.Sh SEE ALSO
93.Xr audio 4 ,
94.Xr isapnp 4 ,
95.Xr gus 4
96.Sh AUTHOR
97Kari Mettinen (Kari.Mettinen@helsinki.fi), University of Helsinki.
98.Sh REFERENCES
99Interwave(tm) IC Am78C201/202 Programmer's Guide Rev. 2. 1996. Advanced
100Micro Devices.
101.Sh HISTORY
102The
103.Nm guspnp
104driver appeared in
105.Nx 1.3 .
106
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