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37.Dd October 5, 1997
38.Dt GUSPNP 4
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm guspnp
41.Nd Am78C201 audio device driver
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "guspnp* at isapnp?"
44.Cd "audio*  at guspnp?"
45.Pp
46There should be no limit caused by the driver on the number of drivers
47or cards active in the system.
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm guspnp
51driver provides support for audiosubsystems using the Interwave (Am78C20x)
52family of ICs, usually the Gravis Ultrasound Plug and Play. Unlike the
53.Nm gus
54driver guspnp driver does not require any local memory for the IC, but uses
55the codec for both playback and recording. The
56.Nm guspnp
57driver can simultaneously playback and record 8- and 16-bit samples at
58frequencies from 5.51kHz to 48kHz.
59.Pp
60The
61.Nm guspnp
62driver relies on
63.Nm isapnp
64to allocate suitable resources for it. This version of the driver only
65uses the first logical device of 5 the interwave IC has. The 4 Unused
66logical devices are ATAPI CD-ROM device, PnP Joystick device, Legacy
67soundcard emulation device (SoundBlaster) and MIDI serial device. Support
68for at least ATAPI CD-ROM and Joystick is being worked on.
69This version of the driver will use 1 IRQ and 2 DRQs.
70.Sh HARDWARE
71Cards supported by the
72.Nm
73driver include:
74.Pp
75.Bl -item -offset indent
76.It
77.Tn Gravis
78Ultrasound PNP, and compatibles
79.El
80.Sh SEE ALSO
81.Xr audio 4 ,
82.Xr gus 4 ,
83.Xr isapnp 4
84.Sh REFERENCES
85Interwave(tm) IC Am78C201/202 Programmer's Guide Rev. 2. 1996. Advanced
86Micro Devices.
87.Sh HISTORY
88The
89.Nm guspnp
90driver appeared in
91.Nx 1.3 .
92.Sh AUTHORS
93.An Kari Mettinen Aq Kari.Mettinen@helsinki.fi ,
94University of Helsinki.
95.Sh BUGS
96Sometimes you can cause a hiss on either left or right channel, or both.
97You can usually make it disappear by playing random data, however this
98might not be a very nice thing to your audio equipment, but it is the only
99way I have found out to be effective.
100.Pp
101Only the Codec is used in this version of the driver, therefore only 2
102channels are supported (left and right). Also sound quality is probably
103worse at lower kHz compared to playing through the synthesizer which does
104interpolation.
105.Pp
106If the implementation has a 'bad' oscillator, using frequencies 44.8kHz
107and 38.4kHz will result in incorrect playback frequency. The author has
108a GUS PnP Pro which displays this behaviour.
109.Pp
110Other members of the Interwave family have not been tested and don't
111have the glue needed to make them work. Should someone need to implement it,
112not many changes in the existing code are needed. Output voltage control in
113register CFIG2 [7] should be set differently for some other members of the
114family.
115.Pp
116Other architectures than i386 haven't been tested. The bus_space abstraction
117has been used from the beginning, so it should work.
118