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35.Dd August 5, 1999
36.Dt ESS 4
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm ess
40.Nd ESS Technology AudioDrive family audio device driver
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.\" .Cd "ess0   at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 drq2 5"
43.Cd "ess*   at isapnp?"
44.\" .Cd "ess*   at ofisa?"
45.Cd "audio* at ess?"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49driver provides support for the ESS 1788, 1888, 1887, and 888 AudioDrive
50audio devices.
51.Pp
52The AudioDrive 1788 is a half-duplex device, while the 1888, 1887, and
53888 are full-duplex.
54All are capable of 8- and 16-bit audio sample recording and playback
55at rates up to 44.1kHz.
56.Pp
57The AudioDrive takes 16 I/O ports.
58The I/O port range, IRQ, and DRQ channels are set by the driver
59to the vaues specified in the configuration file (or for isapnp or ofisa,
60the values assigned from the firmware).
61The I/O port base must be one of 0x220, 0x230, 0x240,
620x250.
63The IRQ must be one of 5, 7, 9, 10 (or 15 on the 1887 only).
64The first DRQ channel must be selected from 0, 1, 3.
65The second DRQ channel (used for playback by the full-duplex 1888/1887, ignored
66by the 1788) can additionally be set to 5.
67If both DRQ channels are used they must be different.
68.Pp
69The joystick interface (if enabled) is handled by the
70.Xr joy 4
71driver.
72.Sh BUGS
73The AudioDrive devices have a SoundBlaster compatibility mode, and may
74be detected by the SoundBlaster driver (see
75.Xr sb 4 )
76rather than the AudioDrive driver.
77The workaround is to remove the SoundBlaster driver from the kernel
78configuration.
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr audio 4 ,
81.Xr isa 4 ,
82.Xr isapnp 4 ,
83.Xr joy 4
84.Sh HISTORY
85The
86.Nm
87device driver appeared in
88.Ox 2.2 .
89