NAME

esa —

ESS Technology Allegro-1/Maestro-3 family audio device

SYNOPSIS

esa* at pci?
audio* at esa?

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 are capable of playback at 8 and 16 bit in mono and stereo.

SEE ALSO

ac97(4), audio(4), intro(4), maestro(4), pci(4)

HISTORY

The esa device driver appeared in OpenBSD 3.1.

AUTHORS

Jared D. McNeill ⟨jmcneill@invisible.ca⟩

BUGS

Hardware volume control is not yet supported by this driver.