SND_DAVBUS(4)

okay bestie, welcome to SND_DAVBUS(4) from the powerpc Kernel Interfaces Manual — yes, it’s giving very specific old-Apple-audio-girlie energy, and we’re gonna read it together 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

snd_davbus — the Apple Davbus audio device driver. That’s the name, that’s the vibe, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

If you wanna compile this driver into your kernel, put these lines into your kernel configuration file, exactly like this:

device sound
device snd_davbus

Or, if you’d rather load the driver as a module at boot time, put this line in loader.conf(5):

snd_davbus_load="YES"

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The snd_davbus driver is the supportive bestie for Apple Davbus audio controllers — specifically the ones found in many G3-era Apple machines. It’s here to handle that audio situation, no cap 🎧✨

🎀 HARDWARE 🎀

Chips supported by the snd_davbus driver include:

• Apple Burgundy Audio
• Apple Screamer Audio

Those are the supported chips, bestie — Burgundy and Screamer, iconic names honestly 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Go read these next:

• snd_ai2s(4)
• sound(4)

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

The snd_davbus device driver appeared in FreeBSD 8.0. A whole era 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The snd_davbus driver was written by Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com>. Respect the author, fr fr 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

Recording is not currently supported. So if you were hoping to record, that’s a no rn — not supported, and we’re not gonna pretend otherwise 😭

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xoxo, this page is serving Debian energy, dated January 20, 2009, and it’s literally SND_DAVBUS(4). bye bestie 🫶💖