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37.Dd November 4, 1995
38.Dt SB 4 i386
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm sb
42.Nd
43SoundBlaster family (and compatibles) audio device driver
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Cd "sb0 at isa? port 0xPPP irq X drq Y flags Z"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm sb
49driver provides support for the SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro,
50SoundBlaster 16, Jazz 16, and hardware register-level compatible audio cards.
51.Pp
52The SoundBlaster series are half-duplex cards, capable of 8- and 16-bit
53audio sample recording and playback at rates up to 44.1kHz (depending on
54the particular model).
55.Pp
56The base I/O port address is usually jumper-selected to either 0x220 or
570x240 (newer cards may provide software configuration, but this driver
58does not directly support them--you must configure the card for its I/O
59addresses with other software).  The SoundBlaster takes 16 I/O ports.
60For the SoundBlaster and SoundBlaster Pro, the IRQ and DRQ channels are
61jumper-selected.  For the SoundBlaster 16, the IRQ and DRQ channels are
62set by this driver to the values specified in the config file.  The IRQ
63must be selected from the set {5,7,9,10}.
64.Pp
65The configuration file must use a nonzero
66.Cm flags
67specification to enable the Jazz16 support.  This is to avoid potential
68conflicts with other devices when probing the Jazz 16 because it requires
69use of extra I/O ports not in the base port range.
70.Pp
71.Sh BUGS
72The driver has not been extensively tested on original SoundBlaster,
73SoundBlaster 16, or newer cards.
74.Pp
75The FM synthesizer, joystick and MIDI port interfaces are not supported.
76.Sh SEE ALSO
77.Xr audio 4
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Nm sb
81device driver appeared in
82.Nx 1.0 .
83