ESA(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

ESA(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

esa - ESS Technology Allegro-1/Maestro-3 family audio device

SYNOPSIS #

esa* at pci? audio* at esa?

DESCRIPTION #

The esa driver provides support for the ESS Allegro-1 and Maestro-3 audio devices on the PCI bus. These devices are popular in laptop systems.

The Allegro-1 and the Maestro-3 are full-duplex devices that allow independent playback and recording at sample rates between 8000Hz and 48000Hz and are capable of playback at 8 and 16 bit in mono and stereo.

SEE ALSO #

ac97(4), audio(4), intro(4), maestro(4), pci(4)

HISTORY #

The esa device driver appeared in OpenBSD 3.1.

AUTHORS #

Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>

BUGS #

Hardware volume control is not yet supported by this driver.

OpenBSD 7.5 - July 16, 2013