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28.Dd $Mdocdate: June 26 2008 $
29.Dt ESS 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm ess
33.Nd ESS Technology AudioDrive family audio device
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.\" .Cd "ess0   at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 drq2 5"
36.Cd "ess*   at isapnp?"
37.\" .Cd "ess*   at ofisa?"
38.Cd "audio* at ess?"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42driver provides support for the ESS 1788, 1888, 1887, and 888 AudioDrive
43audio devices.
44.Pp
45The AudioDrive 1788 is a half-duplex device, while the 1888, 1887, and
46888 are full-duplex.
47All are capable of 8- and 16-bit audio sample recording and playback
48at rates up to 44.1kHz.
49.Pp
50The AudioDrive takes 16 I/O ports.
51The I/O port range, IRQ, and DRQ channels are set by the driver
52to the values specified in the configuration file (or for isapnp or ofisa,
53the values assigned from the firmware).
54The I/O port base must be one of 0x220, 0x230, 0x240,
550x250.
56The IRQ must be one of 5, 7, 9, 10 (or 15 on the 1887 only).
57The first DRQ channel must be selected from 0, 1, 3.
58The second DRQ channel (used for playback by the full-duplex 1888/1887, ignored
59by the 1788) can additionally be set to 5.
60If both DRQ channels are used they must be different.
61.Pp
62The joystick interface (if enabled) is handled by the
63.Xr joy 4
64driver.
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr audio 4 ,
67.Xr intro 4 ,
68.\" .Xr isa 4 ,
69.Xr isapnp 4 ,
70.Xr joy 4 ,
71.Xr sb 4
72.Sh HISTORY
73The
74.Nm
75device driver appeared in
76.Ox 2.2 .
77.Sh BUGS
78The AudioDrive devices have a SoundBlaster compatibility mode, and may
79be detected by the SoundBlaster driver (see
80.Xr sb 4 )
81rather than the AudioDrive driver.
82The workaround is to remove or disable the SoundBlaster driver from the kernel
83configuration.
84