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27.Dd December 14, 2004
28.Dt SND_MAESTRO3 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm snd_maestro3
32.Nd "ESS Maestro3/Allegro-1 bridge device driver"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "device sound"
35.Cd "device snd_maestro3"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39driver provides support for the ESS Maestro3 and Allegro-1 sound chips
40under the PCM framework.
41These chips are mostly found in laptop computers and feature an AC97 mixer,
42a multi-channel sample rate converter that can mix up to four digital audio
43streams in hardware, recording support, and external volume control buttons.
44.Pp
45The firmware for the sound processor is licensed under the GNU Public
46License, and thus this driver is not included in the default
47.Pa GENERIC
48kernel.
49A convenient way to automatically load the driver is to add the line
50.Pp
51.Dl snd_maestro3_load="YES"
52.Pp
53to the file
54.Pa /boot/loader.conf .
55.Sh HARDWARE
56The
57.Nm
58driver supports the following audio devices:
59.Pp
60.Bl -bullet -compact
61.It
62ESS Technology Allegro-1
63.It
64ESS Technology Maestro3
65.El
66.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
67The hardware volume control buttons can be connected to two different pin
68sets (GPIO or GD) on the chip, depending on the manufacturer.
69The driver has no way of determining this configuration, so a hint may be
70used to override the default guess.
71The default setting for hardware volume control assumes that GD pins
72are wired to control the hardware volume.
73For systems that have the GPIO pins wired to the hardware volume control
74buttons, add the line
75.Dq Li hint.pcm.0.hwvol_config="0"
76to the file
77.Pa /boot/device.hints
78to override the default setting.
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr sound 4 ,
81.Xr loader.conf 5
82.Sh HISTORY
83The
84.Nm
85driver first appeared in
86.Fx 4.3 .
87.Sh AUTHORS
88.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org
89.An Darrel Anderson Aq anderson@cs.duke.edu
90