NAME
snd_uaudio - USB audio 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_uaudio
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in loader.conf(5):
snd_uaudio_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The snd_uaudio driver provides support for USB audio 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
sound(4), usb(4)
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. For USB and
supposedly other detach-able busses, it is necessary to allow the device
un-registration to complete successfully, otherwise the driver leaves
wild pointers to invalid data structures and thus leading to a panic.