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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6f53d407d02 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +Recording +--------- + +Recording does not work on the author's card, but there +is at least one report of it working on later silicon. +The chip behaves differently than described in the data sheet, +likely due to a chip bug. Working around this would require +the help of ESS (for example by publishing an errata sheet), +but ESS has not done so so far. + +Also, the chip only supports 24 bit addresses for recording, +which means it cannot work on some Alpha mainboards. + + +/proc/sound, /dev/sndstat +------------------------- + +/proc/sound and /dev/sndstat is not supported by the +driver. To find out whether the driver succeeded loading, +check the kernel log (dmesg). + + +ALaw/uLaw sample formats +------------------------ + +This driver does not support the ALaw/uLaw sample formats. +ALaw is the default mode when opening a sound device +using OSS/Free. The reason for the lack of support is +that the hardware does not support these formats, and adding +conversion routines to the kernel would lead to very ugly +code in the presence of the mmap interface to the driver. +And since xquake uses mmap, mmap is considered important :-) +and no sane application uses ALaw/uLaw these days anyway. +In short, playing a Sun .au file as follows: + +cat my_file.au > /dev/dsp + +does not work. Instead, you may use the play script from +Chris Bagwell's sox-12.14 package (or later, available from the URL +below) to play many different audio file formats. +The script automatically determines the audio format +and does do audio conversions if necessary. +http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.html + + +Blocking vs. nonblocking IO +--------------------------- + +Unlike OSS/Free this driver honours the O_NONBLOCK file flag +not only during open, but also during read and write. +This is an effort to make the sound driver interface more +regular. Timidity has problems with this; a patch +is available from http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/pciaudio.html. +(Timidity patched will also run on OSS/Free). + + +MIDI UART +--------- + +The driver supports a simple MIDI UART interface, with +no ioctl's supported. + + +MIDI synthesizer +---------------- + +The card has an OPL compatible FM synthesizer. + +Thomas Sailer +t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch |