snd_via8233(4freebsd)

snd_via82334freebsd

Via technologies vt8233 bridge device driver

Usage

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

device sound device snd_via8233

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

snd_via8233_load="YES"

Overview

The snd_via8233 bridge driver allows the generic audio driver, sound(4), to attach to the VIA VT8233 audio devices. These audio chipsets are integrated in the southbridge on many VIA based motherboards.

Runtime Configuration

The following sysctl(8) variables are available in addition to those available to all sound(4) devices:

dev.pcm.%d.polling

Experimental polling mode, where the driver operates by querying the device state on each tick using callout(9). Polling is disabled by default. Do not enable it unless you are facing weird interrupt problems or if the device cannot generate interrupts at all.

Hardware

The snd_via8233 driver supports the following audio chipsets:

  • VIA VT8233

  • VIA VT8233A

  • VIA VT8233C

  • VIA VT8235

  • VIA VT8237

  • VIA VT8251

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_via8233 device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.7.

Authors

This manual page was written by Joel Dahl ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Bugs

The snd_via8233 driver does not support S/PDIF. There is partial support in the code, so implementing it should be fairly easy if the right hardware is available.

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