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From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To: "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: docs/23910: Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Clayton" <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: docs/23910: Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes


> The following reply was made to PR docs/23910; it has been noted by
GNATS.
>
> From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, cg@freebsd.org
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
> Moses Moore <jm-moses@home.com>, admin@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
> Subject: Re: docs/23910: Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:10:18 +0000
>
>  Cameron,
>
>  I'm bringing you in on this, as FreeBSD's "Mr Audio".
>
>  On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:44:25PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>  > >Number:         23910
>  > >Category:       docs
>  > >Synopsis:       Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
>  >
>  > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/sound.html really proved useful
>  > when I, today, for the first time I configured a soundcard with
>  > FreeBSD. However, I stumbled over two (minor) issues:
>  >
>  > 1. For on-board sound "cards", one also wants to add
>  >      options PNPBIOS
>  >    to the kernel config.
>
>  Is that right?  If so, on which versions of FreeBSD?  My -current
laptop
>  doesn't need it, and the built in audio on there works OK.
>
>  > 2. `cat /dev/sndstat` did not work until I executed
>  >       cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV snd0
>  >
>  >    Before MAKEDEV I got "No such file or directory"; afterwards
>  >       FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Dec 28 2000 19:02:45
>  >       Installed devices:
>  >       pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> at io 0xc400 irq 11 (1p/1r channels
duplex)
>  >    That is, it was exactly the other around than stated in
section
>  >    14.4 of the manual.
>
>  This does seem to be a problem.  Perhaps we could pull out sndstat
from
>  all the other snd* devices in MAKEDEV, and then say something like
>
>    You must determine which set of sound devices to make, depending
on
>    your audio hardware.  Fortunately, the audio driver can tell you
>    what is required.
>
>    Run the following, to create a /dev/sndstat device, and query it.
>
>      # cd /dev
>      # sh MAKEDEV sndstat
>      # cat sndstat
>
>    [...]
>
>  and then continue with the rest of the text as normal?
>
>  N

That seems like it would be fairly clear.  I just stumbled over the
same issue in the handbook
a week ago.  When I went through the procedure the second time
everything worked of course,
so I just figured that I had made an error the first time through.

Josh




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