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32.Dd February 24, 2011
33.Dt SND_UAUDIO 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm snd_uaudio
37.Nd USB audio and MIDI device driver
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
40kernel configuration file:
41.Bd -ragged -offset indent
42.Cd "device sound"
43.Cd "device usb"
44.Cd "device snd_uaudio"
45.Ed
46.Pp
47Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
48following line in
49.Xr loader.conf 5 :
50.Bd -literal -offset indent
51snd_uaudio_load="YES"
52.Ed
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54The
55.Nm
56driver provides support for
57.Tn USB
58audio class devices and
59.Tn USB
60MIDI class devices.
61.Pp
62A
63.Tn USB
64audio device consists of a number of components:
65input terminals (e.g.\& USB digital input), output terminals (e.g.\&
66speakers), and a number of units in between (e.g.\& volume control).
67.Pp
68Refer to the
69.Ql USB Audio Class Specification
70for more information.
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr sound 4 ,
73.Xr usb 4
74.Rs
75.%T "USB Audio Class Specifications"
76.%U http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/
77.Re
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Nm
81driver first appeared in
82.Fx 4.7 .
83.Sh AUTHORS
84This manual page was adopted from
85.Nx 1.6
86and modified for
87.Fx
88by
89.An Hiten Pandya Aq Mt hmp@FreeBSD.org .
90.Sh BUGS
91The
92.Tn PCM
93framework in
94.Fx ,
95as of this writing, does not handle device un-registrations in a properly
96abstracted manner, i.e., a detach request is refused by the
97.Tn PCM
98framework if the device is in use.
99It is necessary to allow the device un-registration to complete
100successfully, otherwise the
101.Tn PCM
102layer will panic.
103