Reference

snd_sbc(4)

Creative Sound Blaster ISA and compatible bridge device driver

NAME

snd_sbc – Creative Sound Blaster ISA and compatible bridge device driver

SYNOPSIS

device sound device snd_sbc

Non-PnP cards require the following lines in /boot/device.hints: hint.sbc.0.at="isa" hint.sbc.0.port="0x220" hint.sbc.0.irq="5" hint.sbc.0.drq="1" hint.sbc.0.flags="0x15"

DESCRIPTION

The snd_sbc bridge driver allows the generic audio drivers including sound(4) to attach to Creative Sound Blaster ISA compatible audio cards.

The value of flags specifies the secondary DMA channel. If the secondary DMA channel is C, set the flags to (C | 0x10). For a sound card without the secondary DMA channel, the flags should be set to zero.

HARDWARE

The snd_sbc driver supports the following sound cards:

  • Avance Asound 110

  • Avance Logic ALS100+

  • Avance Logic ALS120

  • Creative SB16

  • Creative SB32

  • Creative AWE64

  • Creative AWE64 Gold

  • Creative ViBRA16C

  • Creative ViBRA16X

  • ESS ES1681

  • ESS ES1688

  • ESS ES1868

  • ESS ES1869

  • ESS ES1878

  • ESS ES1879

  • ESS ES1888

DIAGNOSTICS

sb_dspwr(XX) timed out.

A command to the DSP has timed out. Check the I/O port configuration.

bad irq XX (5/7/9/10 valid)

The IRQ given to the driver is not valid.

SEE ALSO

sound(4)

HISTORY

The snd_sbc device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.

AUTHORS

Seigo Tanimura ⟨[email protected]⟩