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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.
55 Since the SB16 uses the same IRQ and addresses for
56 the different drivers, some of the snd drivers will not be probed because
57 the kernel thinks there is a conflict.
59 Current version doesn't support mode changes without closing and reopening
61 Support for this feature may be implemented in a future
62 version of this driver.
68 The original SoundBlaster DSP and SoundBlaster 16 MIDI, and Yamaha OPL-3
69 drivers were written by
70 .An Hannu Savolainen .
71 The SoundBlaster 16 DSP code was written by
72 .An J. Schuber Aq jsb@sth.ruhr-uni-bochum.de .
73 Improvements to the OPL-3 drivers were made by
74 .An Rob Hooft Aq hooft@chem.ruu.nl .
76 Sound Galaxy NX Pro support added by Hunyue Yau (Jan 6 1994). MV
77 ProSonic/Jazz 16 16bit support added by JRA Gibson (April 1995). Audio
78 Excel DSP 16 support added by Riccardo Facchetti (March 24 1995).