NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     sb - SoundBlaster  family  (and  compatibles)  audio  device
driver

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
     sb1 at isa? port 0x240 irq 7 drq 1 flags 1
     sb* at isapnp?
     audio* at sb?
     midi* at sb? (MPU401 port)
     opl* at sb?

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The  sb driver supports the 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 set the value of flags to  1  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.

     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.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     aic(4),  audio(4),  intro(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), joy(4), midi(4), opl(4),
     wss(4)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The sb device driver appeared in NetBSD 1.0.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     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 non-SCSI CD-ROM interfaces found on some older cards are
not supported.


OpenBSD     3.6                        November      4,      1995