ESA(4)

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🎧 esa(4): ESS Technology Allegro-1 / Maestro-3 family audio device driver 🎧

okay so bestie, welcome to the esa(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual ✨ it's giving audio hardware, and we're here for it.

💖 NAME 💖

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

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

esa*   at pci? dev ? function ?
audio* at audiobus?
options ESA_NUM_VOICES=4

✨ 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 they're capable of playback at 8 and 16 bit in mono and stereo. 💅

  • options ESA_NUM_VOICES=4 — setting this allows for hardware mixing in the device driver.
note bestie: due to microcode constraints, the esa driver is currently limited to 4 simultaneous voices. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read these too, iykyk:

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

The esa device driver appeared in NetBSD 1.5.3. 👑

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

shoutout to Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca> — icon behavior fr fr 💜

— Debian build, May 13, 2008, signing off the ESA(4) page 🫶💖

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