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20 .Nd Creative Labs Sound Blaster and compatible device driver
22 For all sound cards supported with the sb driver this is needed:
25 For the SoundBlaster, SB Pro, SoundBlaster16, or the Pro Audio Spectrum
27 .Cd "device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1"
29 For specific SB16 support:
30 .Cd "device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5"
32 For SoundBlaster 16 16 bit MIDI support:
33 .Cd "device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x300"
38 To add support for the Logitech SoundMan Games:
39 .Cd "options SM_GAMES"
41 To add SG NX Pro mixer support:
42 .Cd "options __SGNXPRO__"
44 The OPL-2/3 is used in the SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SB 16, and the
46 For Yamaha OPL-2/OPL-3 FM support:
47 .Cd "device opl0 at isa? port 0x388"
49 This driver covers the SoundBlaster family of cards including the
50 SoundBlaster 1.0 to the SoundBlaster 16/SoundBlaster 32. The awe driver
51 provides AWE32/64 functionality. This driver is provided in
53 versions 2.0-current through 3.0-current. You can also configure more
54 then one card on a single DMA using the conflicts keyword in your
55 configuration file. This is useful for boards with more then one type of
58 Since the SB16 uses the same IRQ and addresses for
59 the different drivers, some of the snd drivers will not be probed because
60 the kernel thinks there is a conflict. This can be worked-around by
61 using the "conflicts" keyword on the sb16's device line.
63 Current version doesn't support mode changes without closing and reopening
65 Support for this feature may be implemented in a future
66 version of this driver.
72 The original SoundBlaster DSP and SoundBlaster 16 MIDI, and Yamaha OPL-3
73 drivers were written by
74 .An Hannu Savolainen .
75 The SoundBlaster 16 DSP code was written by
76 .An J. Schuber Aq jsb@sth.ruhr-uni-bochum.de .
77 Improvements to the OPL-3 drivers were made by
78 .An Rob Hooft Aq hooft@chem.ruu.nl .
80 Sound Galaxy NX Pro support added by Hunyue Yau (Jan 6 1994). MV
81 ProSonic/Jazz 16 16bit support added by JRA Gibson (April 1995). Audio
82 Excel DSP 16 support added by Riccardo Facchetti (March 24 1995).