From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 15 16:15:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEE637B400; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84D043E4A; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ripper@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16863; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:15:42 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id QAA06965; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200207152315.QAA06965@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: blackend@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20020715173223.42bb9033.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> (message from Tom Rhodes on Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:32:23 -0400) Subject: Re: docs/40609: Add information about vchans to sound chapter in handbook Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> Multimedia Part: >> Ch. sound >> Ch. video >> Ch. scanners >> Ch. misc. >> >> What do everyone think about that? I think that would be kind of cool. Actually, I've done some work with scanners and cameras too. Not as extensive as the hell I went through for video playback, but still some hiccups and hurdles that I've seen people repeat. Forking the handbook into "Part II: Super-Hardware" or something like that seems like a pretty good idea. There was a point in time when FreeBSD support for exotic devices was non-existent, but a lot of things have changed, particularly because of the adoption of USB (that and PCMCIA might deserve their own chapters). With PCMCIA and USB, there is the potential for a lot of devices to start appearing on the market which will quickly have drivers written for them. "Part II" is likely to grow quickly. For now though, I'm more inclined to just add the part about vchans to my current chapter 14, which seems doable, get that chapter 14 committed, because I think it is important to save people headaches [and TV/DVD apps are very popular these days], and then start thinking about a second book, and maybe getting some volunteers, since I only know the devices I have -- and I'm not a big hacker, really. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message