/proc/sound, /dev/sndstat-------------------------/proc/sound and /dev/sndstat is not supported by thedriver. To find out whether the driver succeeded loading,check the kernel log (dmesg).ALaw/uLaw sample formats------------------------This driver does not support the ALaw/uLaw sample formats.ALaw is the default mode when opening a sound deviceusing OSS/Free. The reason for the lack of support isthat the hardware does not support these formats, and addingconversion routines to the kernel would lead to very uglycode in the presence of the mmap interface to the driver.And since xquake uses mmap, mmap is considered important :-)and no sane application uses ALaw/uLaw these days anyway.In short, playing a Sun .au file as follows:cat my_file.au > /dev/dspdoes not work. Instead, you may use the play script fromChris Bagwell's sox-12.14 package (available from the URLbelow) to play many different audio file formats.The script automatically determines the audio formatand does do audio conversions if necessary.http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.htmlBlocking vs. nonblocking IO---------------------------Unlike OSS/Free this driver honours the O_NONBLOCK file flagnot only during open, but also during read and write.This is an effort to make the sound driver interface moreregular. Timidity has problems with this; a patchis available from http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/pciaudio.html.(Timidity patched will also run on OSS/Free).MIDI UART---------The driver supports a simple MIDI UART interface, withno ioctl's supported.MIDI synthesizer----------------This soundcard does not have any hardware MIDI synthesizer;MIDI synthesis has to be done in software. To allow thisthe driver/soundcard supports two PCM (/dev/dsp) interfaces.The second one goes to the mixer "synth" setting and supportsonly a limited set of sampling rates (44100, 22050, 11025, 5512).By setting lineout to 1 on the driver command line(eg. insmod es1370 lineout=1) it is even possible on somecards to convert the LINEIN jack into a second LINEOUT jack, thusmaking it possible to output four independent audio channels!There is a freely available software package that allowsMIDI file playback on this soundcard called Timidity.See http://www.cgs.fi/~tt/timidity/.Thomas Sailert.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch