NAME

eso — ESS Technology Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive audio device driver

SYNOPSIS

eso* at pci? dev ? function ?
audio* at audiobus?
joy* at eso?
mpu* at eso?
opl* at eso?

DESCRIPTION

The eso device driver supports sound cards based on ESS Technology Solo-1 PCI AudioDrive chips (ES1938 and ES1946), e.g. the TerraTec 128i PCI card.

DIAGNOSTICS

eso0: can't map Audio 1 DMA into I/O space

PCI autoconfiguration did not map the first audio channel DMA controller into I/O space at a suitable address, and the driver was not able map it by itself. In that case only playback functionality will be available.

eso0: reset timeout

The device failed to acknowledge being reset.

eso0: RDR timeout

The driver timed out reading data from a controller register.

eso0: WDR timeout

The driver timed out waiting to send a command or writing to a controller register.

SEE ALSO

audio(4), joy(4), mpu(4), opl(4), pci(4)

HISTORY

The eso device driver appeared in NetBSD 1.5. The on-board gameport was first supported in NetBSD 1.6.