patch-2.3.99-pre1 linux/Documentation/sound/ALS

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• Date: Sun Mar 12 19:39:47 2000
• Orig file: v2.3.51/linux/Documentation/sound/ALS
• Orig date: Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969

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+ALS-007/ALS-100/ALS-200 based sound cards
+=========================================
+
+Support for sound cards based around the Avance Logic
+ALS-007/ALS-100/ALS-200 chip is included.  These chips are a single
+chip PnP sound solution which is mostly hardware compatible with the
+Sound Blaster 16 card, with most differences occurring in the use of
+the mixer registers.  For this reason the ALS code is integrated
+as part of the Sound Blaster 16 driver (adding only 800 bytes to the
+SB16 driver).
+
+To use an ALS sound card under Linux, enable the following options in the
+sound configuration section of the kernel config:
+  - 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support
+  - FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support 
+Since the ALS-007/100/200 is a PnP card, the sound driver probably should be
+compiled as a module, with the isapnptools used to wake up the sound card.
+Set the "I/O base for SB", "Sound Blaster IRQ" and "Sound Blaster DMA" (8 bit -
+either 0, 1 or 3) to the values used in your particular installation (they
+should match the values used to configure the card using isapnp).  The
+ALS-007 does NOT implement 16 bit DMA, so the "Sound Blaster 16 bit DMA"
+should be set to -1.  If you wish to use the external MPU-401 interface on
+the card, "MPU401 I/O base of SB16" and "SB MPU401 IRQ" should be set to
+the appropriate values for your installation.  (Note that the ALS-007
+requires a separate IRQ for the MPU-401, so don't specify -1 here).  (Note
+that the base port of the internal FM synth is fixed at 0x388 on the ALS007; 
+in any case the FM synth location cannot be set in the kernel configuration).
+
+The resulting sound driver will provide the following capabilities:
+  - 8 and 16 bit audio playback
+  - 8 and 16 bit audio recording
+  - Software selection of record source (line in, CD, FM, mic, master)
+  - Record and playback of midi data via the external MPU-401
+  - Playback of midi data using inbuilt FM synthesizer
+  - Control of the ALS-007 mixer via any OSS-compatible mixer programs. 
+    Controls available are Master (L&R), Line in (L&R), CD (L&R), 
+    DSP/PCM/audio out (L&R), FM (L&R) and Mic in (mono).
+
+Jonathan Woithe
+jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au
+30 March 1998
+
+Modified 2000-02-26 by Dave Forrest, drf5n@virginia.edu to add ALS100/ALS200