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32.Dd December 15, 2005
32.Dd February 24, 2011
33.Dt SND_UAUDIO 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm snd_uaudio
33.Dt SND_UAUDIO 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm snd_uaudio
37.Nd USB audio device driver
37.Nd USB audio and MIDI device driver
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
40kernel configuration file:
41.Bd -ragged -offset indent
42.Cd "device sound"
43.Cd "device usb"
44.Cd "device snd_uaudio"
45.Ed
46.Pp
47Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
48following line in
49.Xr loader.conf 5 :
50.Bd -literal -offset indent
51snd_uaudio_load="YES"
52.Ed
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54The
55.Nm
56driver provides support for
57.Tn USB
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
40kernel configuration file:
41.Bd -ragged -offset indent
42.Cd "device sound"
43.Cd "device usb"
44.Cd "device snd_uaudio"
45.Ed
46.Pp
47Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
48following line in
49.Xr loader.conf 5 :
50.Bd -literal -offset indent
51snd_uaudio_load="YES"
52.Ed
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54The
55.Nm
56driver provides support for
57.Tn USB
58audio class devices.
58audio class devices and
59.Tn USB
60MIDI class devices.
59.Pp
60A
61.Tn USB
62audio device consists of a number of components:
63input terminals (e.g.\& USB digital input), output terminals (e.g.\&
64speakers), and a number of units in between (e.g.\& volume control).
65.Pp
66Refer to the
67.Ql USB Audio Class Specification
68for more information.
69.Sh SEE ALSO
70.Xr sound 4 ,
71.Xr usb 4
72.Rs
73.%T "USB Audio Class Specifications"
74.%U http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/
75.Re
76.Sh HISTORY
77The
78.Nm
79driver first appeared in
80.Fx 4.7 .
81.Sh AUTHORS
82This manual page was adopted from
83.Nx 1.6
84and modified for
85.Fx
86by
87.An Hiten Pandya Aq hmp@FreeBSD.org .
88.Sh BUGS
89The
90.Tn PCM
91framework in
92.Fx ,
93as of this writing, does not handle device un-registrations in a properly
94abstracted manner, i.e., a detach request is refused by the
95.Tn PCM
96framework if the device is in use.
61.Pp
62A
63.Tn USB
64audio device consists of a number of components:
65input terminals (e.g.\& USB digital input), output terminals (e.g.\&
66speakers), and a number of units in between (e.g.\& volume control).
67.Pp
68Refer to the
69.Ql USB Audio Class Specification
70for more information.
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr sound 4 ,
73.Xr usb 4
74.Rs
75.%T "USB Audio Class Specifications"
76.%U http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/
77.Re
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Nm
81driver first appeared in
82.Fx 4.7 .
83.Sh AUTHORS
84This manual page was adopted from
85.Nx 1.6
86and modified for
87.Fx
88by
89.An Hiten Pandya Aq hmp@FreeBSD.org .
90.Sh BUGS
91The
92.Tn PCM
93framework in
94.Fx ,
95as of this writing, does not handle device un-registrations in a properly
96abstracted manner, i.e., a detach request is refused by the
97.Tn PCM
98framework if the device is in use.
97For
98.Tn USB
99and supposedly other detach-able busses, it is necessary to allow the
100device un-registration to complete successfully, otherwise the driver
101leaves wild pointers to invalid data structures and thus leading to a panic.
99It is necessary to allow the device un-registration to complete
100successfully, otherwise the
101.Tn PCM
102layer will panic.