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27.Dd April 7, 2012
28.Dt SND_HDA 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm snd_hda
32.Nd "Intel High Definition Audio bridge device driver"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
35kernel configuration file:
36.Bd -ragged -offset indent
37.Cd "device pcm"
38.Cd "device snd_hda"
39.Ed
40.Pp
41Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
42following line in
43.Xr loader.conf 5 :
44.Bd -literal -offset indent
45snd_hda_load="YES"
46.Ed
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50bridge device driver allows the generic audio driver,
51.Xr sound 4 ,
52to attach to Intel High Definition Audio devices.
53The
54.Nm
55driver supports hardware that conforms with revision 1.0 of the Intel High
56Definition Audio specification and tries to behave much like the Microsoft
57Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) draft (revision 0.7b) for handling audio
58devices.
59HDA acts like a primary bus, similar to
60.Xr miibus 4 ,
61for handling various child buses such as audio, modem and HDMI (High Definition
62Multimedia Interface).
63Only audio is implemented in the
64.Nm
65driver.
66.Pp
67The High Definition (HD) Audio specification was developed by Intel as the
68logical successor of the old AC'97 specification and has several advantages,
69such as higher bandwidth which allows more channels and more detailed formats,
70support for several logical audio devices, and general purpose DMA channels.
71.Pp
72The HDA specification defines the register-level interface, physical link
73characteristics, codec programming models, and codec architectural components.
74This specification is intended for both device driver developers and hardware
75component designers.
76.Ss Runtime Configuration
77The following
78.Xr sysctl 8
79variables are available in addition to those available to all
80.Xr sound 4
81devices:
82.Bl -tag -width ".Va dev.pcm.%d.polling" -offset indent
83.It Va dev.pcm.%d.polling
84Experimental polling mode, where the driver operates by querying the device
85state on each tick using
86.Xr callout 9 .
87Polling is disabled by default.
88Do not enable it unless you are facing weird interrupt problems or if the
89device cannot generate interrupts at all.
90.El
91.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
92.Bl -tag -width indent
93.It Va hw.snd.hdac.msi.enable
94By default, the driver will use MSI if it is supported.
95This behavior can be turned off by setting this tunable to 0.
96.El
97.Sh HARDWARE
98The
99.Nm
100driver supports the following audio chipsets:
101.Pp
102.Bl -bullet -compact
103.It
104ATI SB450
105.It
106ATI SB600
107.It
108Intel 631x/632xESB
109.It
110Intel 82801F
111.It
112Intel 82801G
113.It
114Intel 82801H
115.It
116nVidia MCP51
117.It
118nVidia MCP55
119.It
120nVidia MCP61A
121.It
122nVidia MCP61B
123.It
124nVidia MCP65A
125.It
126nVidia MCP65B
127.It
128SiS 966
129.It
130VIA VT8251/8237A
131.El
132.Pp
133Generic audio chipsets compatible with the Intel HDA specification should work,
134but have not been verified yet.
135The following codecs have been verified to work:
136.Pp
137.Bl -bullet -compact
138.It
139Analog Device AD1981HD
140.It
141Analog Device AD1983
142.It
143Analog Device AD1986A
144.It
145Analog Device AD1988
146.It
147CMedia CMI9880
148.It
149Conexant Venice
150.It
151Conexant Waikiki
152.It
153Realtek ALC260
154.It
155Realtek ALC262
156.It
157Realtek ALC861
158.It
159Realtek ALC861VD
160.It
161Realtek ALC880
162.It
163Realtek ALC882
164.It
165Realtek ALC883
166.It
167Realtek ALC885
168.It
169Realtek ALC888
170.It
171Sigmatel STAC9220
172.It
173Sigmatel STAC9220D/9223D
174.It
175Sigmatel STAC9221
176.It
177Sigmatel STAC9221D
178.It
179Sigmatel STAC9227
180.It
181Sigmatel STAC9271D
182.It
183VIA VT1708
184.It
185VIA VT1709
186.El
187.Sh SEE ALSO
188.Xr sound 4 ,
189.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
190.Xr sysctl 8
191.Sh HISTORY
192The
193.Nm
194device driver first appeared in
195.Fx 7.0 .
196.Sh AUTHORS
197.An -nosplit
198The
199.Nm
200driver was written by
201.An Stephane E. Potvin Aq Mt sepotvin@videotron.ca
202and
203.An Ariff Abdullah Aq Mt ariff@FreeBSD.org .
204This manual page was written by
205.An Joel Dahl Aq Mt joel@FreeBSD.org .
206.Sh BUGS
207There are a couple of missing features, such as support for Digital
208S/PDIF and multichannel output.
209.Pp
210A few Hardware/OEM vendors tend to screw up BIOS settings, thus
211rendering the
212.Nm
213driver useless, which usually results in a state where the
214.Nm
215driver seems to attach and work, but without any sound.
216