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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/ALS b/Documentation/sound/oss/ALS deleted file mode 100644 index bf10bed4574b..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sound/oss/ALS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -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 as -modules 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 - - standalone MPU401 support may be required for some cards; for the - ALS-007, when using isapnptools, it is required -Since the ALS-007/100/200 are PnP cards, ISAPnP support should probably be -compiled in. If kernel level PnP support is not included, isapnptools will -be required to configure the card before the sound modules are loaded. - -When using kernel level ISAPnP, the kernel should correctly identify and -configure all resources required by the card when the "sb" module is -inserted. Note that the ALS-007 does not have a 16 bit DMA channel and that -the MPU401 interface on this card uses a different interrupt to the audio -section. This should all be correctly configured by the kernel; if problems -with the MPU401 interface surface, try using the standalone MPU401 module, -passing "0" as the "sb" module's "mpu_io" module parameter to prevent the -soundblaster driver attempting to register the MPU401 itself. The onboard -synth device can be accessed using the "opl3" module. - -If isapnptools is used to wake up the sound card (as in 2.2.x), the settings -of the card's resources should be passed to the kernel modules ("sb", "opl3" -and "mpu401") using the module parameters. When configuring an ALS-007, be -sure to specify different IRQs for the audio and MPU401 sections - this card -requires they be different. For "sb", "io", "irq" and "dma" should be set -to the same values used to configure the audio section of the card with -isapnp. "dma16" should be explicitly set to "-1" for an ALS-007 since this -card does not have a 16 bit dma channel; if not specified the kernel will -default to using channel 5 anyway which will cause audio not to work. -"mpu_io" should be set to 0. The "io" parameter of the "opl3" module should -also agree with the setting used by isapnp. To get the MPU401 interface -working on an ALS-007 card, the "mpu401" module will be required since this -card uses separate IRQs for the audio and MPU401 sections and there is no -parameter available to pass a different IRQ to the "sb" driver (whose -inbuilt MPU401 driver would otherwise be fine). Insert the mpu401 module -passing appropriate values using the "io" and "irq" parameters. - -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@just42.net -30 March 1998 - -Modified 2000-02-26 by Dave Forrest, drf5n@virginia.edu to add ALS100/ALS200 -Modified 2000-04-10 by Paul Laufer, pelaufer@csupomona.edu to add ISAPnP info. -Modified 2000-11-19 by Jonathan Woithe, jwoithe@just42.net - - updated information for kernel 2.4.x. |