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27.Dd January 6, 2002
28.Dt ESA 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm esa
32.Nd ESS Technology Allegro-1 / Maestro-3 family audio device driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "esa*   at pci? dev ? function ?"
35.Cd "audio* at esa?"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39driver provides support for the ESS Allegro-1 and Maestro-3 audio devices
40on the PCI bus. These devices are popular in laptop systems.
41.Pp
42The Allegro-1 and the Maestro-3 are full-duplex devices that allow
43independent playback and recording at sample rates between 8000Hz and
4448000Hz and are capable of playback at 8 and 16 bit in mono and stereo.
45.Sh SEE ALSO
46.Xr audio 4 ,
47.Xr pci 4
48.Sh HISTORY
49The
50.Nm
51device driver appeared in
52.Nx 1.5.3 .
53.Sh AUTHORS
54.An Jared D. McNeill Aq jmcneill@invisible.yi.org
55.Sh BUGS
56Hardware volume control is not yet supported by this driver.
57