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28.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
29.Dt ESA 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm esa
33.Nd ESS Technology Allegro-1/Maestro-3 family audio device
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "esa*   at pci?"
36.Cd "audio* at esa?"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the ESS Allegro-1 and Maestro-3 audio devices
41on the PCI bus.
42These devices are popular in laptop systems.
43.Pp
44The Allegro-1 and the Maestro-3 are full-duplex devices that allow
45independent playback and recording at sample rates between 8000Hz and
4648000Hz and are capable of playback at 8 and 16 bit in mono and stereo.
47.Sh SEE ALSO
48.Xr ac97 4 ,
49.Xr audio 4 ,
50.Xr intro 4 ,
51.Xr maestro 4 ,
52.Xr pci 4
53.Sh HISTORY
54The
55.Nm
56device driver appeared in
57.Ox 3.1 .
58.Sh AUTHORS
59.An Jared D. McNeill Aq Mt jmcneill@invisible.ca
60.Sh BUGS
61Hardware volume control is not yet supported by this driver.
62