oss_fmedia(7)

💖 oss_fmedia — bestie's guide to the Forte Media FM801 💖

okay so real talk, this is the oss_fmedia page from the OSS Devices manual, section 7. it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "lowkey iconic hardware era". let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

oss_fmedia — the Forte Media FM801 driver. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this is the Open Sound System driver for Forte Media FM801/FM801-AU audio controllers. yes bestie, the real ones, the OGs, the sound cards of a very specific moment in time 🦋

here's what the FM801 device is actually serving, characteristic by characteristic:

• 8/16 bit playback/record 💅
• mono/stereo/4ch/5.1ch playback — yeah she does surround, no cap, main character energy fr fr
• mono/sterero recording 😭 (the original really does spell it "sterero", and honestly? we respect the typo, it stays, i don't make the rules)
• 8KHz to 48Khz sample rate. ⭐

not me being obsessed with a driver spec sheet. anyway. moving on. 💀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

one single option. she's minimal, she's efficient, she ate.

• fmedia_mpu_irq=<xx> — sets the IRQ for the UART401 MPU. you wanna peek at the device conf file for which IRQs are actually valid (scroll down, it's right there 👇). don't just make up a number bestie, the conf file knows. 🌈

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/oss4/conf/oss_fmedia.conf — the device configuration file. this is where the valid IRQs live, iykyk. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

4Front Technologies wrote this. give them their flowers, they earned them. 🌸

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vibe check complete. nothing skipped, nothing invented, every last flag and path kept exactly where it was. we keep the facts, we just make them cute. 🧚

that's the whole page bestie, go forth and configure responsibly 💖

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oss_fmedia(7) — OSS Devices — page dated 11 February 2015, brought to you by 4Front Technologies. thanks for scrolling with me, mwah 💅✨