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Date:      Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:49:38 -0500
From:      Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
To:        Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@MyBSD.org.my>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, mat@cnd.mcgill.ca
Subject:   Re: Massive sound changes / fix (24/32bit pcm support, new sampling rate converter, various fixes)
Message-ID:  <42D0C502.9030906@alumni.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050710051523.0a67cd91.skywizard@MyBSD.org.my>
References:  <42D02CA9.4080201@alumni.rice.edu> <20050710051523.0a67cd91.skywizard@MyBSD.org.my>

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On 07/09/05 16:15, Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:59:37 -0500
> Jonathan Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
>>I don't know if you've touched the man pages at all, but my latest
>>patch  includes a man page update for the spdif sysctl:
>>http://www.noacks.org/freebsd/es137x.diff
> 
> Currently I haven't touched any man pages at all. Can you do separate
> patches for that? There are few new sysctls need to be documented,
> perhaps you can do that too.
> 
> 	es137x:
> 		1) hw.snd.pcm<unit>.latency_timer
> 		   - PCI latency timer adjustment. Most pops /
> 		     crackling issue can be solved by adjusting it to
> 		     appropriate value (especially on VIA mobo).

See the attached patch to the es137x man page.  I'm a newcomer to the 
editing man pages, so a review would be appreciated.

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Index: snd_es137x.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/snd_es137x.4,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 snd_es137x.4
--- snd_es137x.4	22 May 2005 16:14:55 -0000	1.4
+++ snd_es137x.4	10 Jul 2005 06:44:49 -0000
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@
 bridge driver allows the generic audio driver
 .Xr sound 4
 to attach to the Ensoniq 137x audio cards.
+.Ss Runtime Configuration
+The following
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variables are available in addition to those available to all
+.Xr sound 4
+devices:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Va hw.snd.report_soft_formats" -offset indent
+.It Va hw.snd.pcm%d.latency_timer
+Controls the PCI latency timer setting.
+Adjusting this to an appropriate value will solve most popping and crackling issues
+(especially on VIA motherboards).
+.It Va hw.snd.pcm%d.spdif_enabled
+Enables S/PDIF output on the primary playback channel.
+This
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variable is available only if the device is known to support S/PDIF output.
+.El
 .Sh HARDWARE
 The
 .Nm
@@ -59,3 +76,4 @@
 .An "Russell Cattelan" Aq cattelan@thebarn.com
 .An "Cameron Grant" Aq cg@FreeBSD.org
 .An "Joachim Kuebart"
+.An "Jonathan Noack" Aq noackjr@alumni.rice.edu

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