freebsd sound card CS423x

[shase]

Hi ,

I have an onboard sound card. Strange enough , but it is not listed
under pciconf -lv.

I ran kldload snd_driver , just because I have no clue regarding make/
model of this card. Could not relate it to any particular driver as
such.

Now here is the thing ...

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# cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <CS423x> at io 0x600 irq 5 drq 1:0 bufsz 4096 [GIANT] (1p:1v/1r:
1v channels duplex default)

>> sndstat doesnt tell me which driver is picked up. Instead "Giant" appears. What does this mean ?
More details follow ..

Meanwhile

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# dmesg | grep pcm
pcm0: <CS423x> at port 0x600-0x603,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq
1,0 pnpid CSC6835 on isa0
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: [ITHREAD]

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Thanks,
Sanket