NAME
snd_uaudio —
USB audio and MIDI device
driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device sound
device usb
device snd_uaudioAlternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
uaudio_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
Thesnd_uaudio driver provides support for USB audio
class devices and USB MIDI class devices.
A USB audio device consists of a number of components: input terminals (e.g. USB digital input), output terminals (e.g. speakers), and a number of units in between (e.g. volume control).
Refer to the ‘USB Audio Class
Specification’ for more information.
SEE ALSO
USB Audio Class Specifications, http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/.
HISTORY
The snd_uaudio driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 4.7.
AUTHORS
This manual page was adopted from NetBSD 1.6 and modified for FreeBSD by Hiten Pandya <hmp@FreeBSD.org>.
BUGS
The PCM framework in FreeBSD, as of this writing, does not handle device un-registrations in a properly abstracted manner, i.e., a detach request is refused by the PCM framework if the device is in use. It is necessary to allow the device un-registration to complete successfully, otherwise the PCM layer will panic.