snd_csa(4freebsd)

snd_csa4freebsd

Crystal semiconductor cs461x/462x/4280 pci bridge device driver

Usage

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device sound device snd_csa

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

snd_csa_load="YES"

Overview

The snd_csa bridge driver allows the generic audio driver sound(4) to attach to Crystal Semiconductor CS461x/462x/4280 based sound cards.

Hardware

The snd_csa driver supports the following sound cards:

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4280

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4610

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4611

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4614

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4615

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4622

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4624

  • Crystal Semiconductor CS4630

  • Genius Soundmaker 128 Value

  • Hercules Game Theatre XP

  • Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

Some onboard CS4610 chips are accompanied by the CS423x ISA codec instead of the CS4297 AC97 codec. Such configurations are not supported by the snd_csa driver yet.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11–13

History

The snd_csa device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.

Authors

Seigo Tanimura ⟨[email protected]⟩

From freebsd-manpages 12.2-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.