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28.Dd November 29, 2006
29.Dt SND_VIA8233 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm snd_via8233
33.Nd "VIA Technologies VT8233 bridge device driver"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device pcm"
39.Cd "device snd_via8233"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
43following line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46snd_via8233_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51bridge driver allows the generic audio driver,
52.Xr sound 4 ,
53to attach to the VIA VT8233 audio devices.
54These audio chipsets are integrated in the southbridge on many VIA based
55motherboards.
56.Ss Runtime Configuration
57The following
58.Xr sysctl 8
59variables are available in addition to those available to all
60.Xr sound 4
61devices:
62.Bl -tag -width ".Va dev.pcm.%d.polling" -offset indent
63.It Va dev.pcm.%d.polling
64Experimental polling mode, where the driver operates by querying the device
65state on each tick using
66.Xr callout 9 .
67Polling is disabled by default.
68Do not enable it unless you are facing weird interrupt problems or if the
69device cannot generate interrupts at all.
70.El
71.Sh HARDWARE
72The
73.Nm
74driver supports the following audio chipsets:
75.Pp
76.Bl -bullet -compact
77.It
78VIA VT8233
79.It
80VIA VT8233A
81.It
82VIA VT8233C
83.It
84VIA VT8235
85.It
86VIA VT8237
87.It
88VIA VT8251
89.El
90.Sh SEE ALSO
91.Xr sound 4
92.Sh HISTORY
93The
94.Nm
95device driver first appeared in
96.Fx 4.7 .
97.Sh AUTHORS
98This manual page was written by
99.An Joel Dahl Aq joel@FreeBSD.org .
100.Sh BUGS
101The
102.Nm
103driver
104does not support S/PDIF.
105There is partial support in the code, so implementing it should be fairly
106easy if the right hardware is available.
107