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26.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
27.Dt MAESTRO 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm maestro
31.Nd ESS Maestro 1 and 2 audio device
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd "maestro* at pci?"
34.Cd "audio* at maestro?"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38driver supports ESS maestro 1, 2 and 2E, including OEM products that
39identify as NEC Versa, or NEC VersaProNX VA26D, as long as they use
40an AC'97 compliant codec, which is always the case, except for very
41early models.
42It does not support maestro 3 cards, which are entirely different and
43supported by the
44.Xr esa 4
45driver.
46.Pp
47Maestro cards have direct support for 16 bit signed little-endian
48mono and stereo, 8 bit signed and unsigned mono and stereo.
49Other encodings are emulated in software.
50Sampling range is 4000 - 48000 Hz, with roughly a 2 Hz resolution.
51.Pp
52Maestro cards have some DSP and Dolby Digital 5.1 hardware, but this driver
53does not support it.
54.Pp
55Other functions of maestro cards (modem, joystick) are not supported.
56.Pp
57PCI interrupt sharing works, as long as other devices comply too.
58.Sh SEE ALSO
59.Xr ac97 4 ,
60.Xr audio 4 ,
61.Xr esa 4 ,
62.Xr intro 4 ,
63.Xr pci 4
64.Sh HISTORY
65Maestro hardware information was gleaned from the
66.Fx
67and Linux OSS drivers.
68.Sh AUTHORS
69David Leonard and Marc Espie.
70.Sh BUGS
71Very old cards with a PT101 mixer component should have partial support, e.g.,
72the mixer does not work.
73.Pp
74Recording should work soon.
75