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Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:17:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM>
To: Wyatt Banks <banksw@sunyit.edu>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: soundcard configuartion
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Documentation is never up to date in any operating system. Quite simply it
is more fun to write code than to write man pages.

Unless you need specific features of 4.0, you might be better off
installing 3.5. When 5.x is stable, the documentation should have caught
up with 4.x.

Paul Smith
stork@qnet.com

On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Wyatt Banks wrote:

> I have version 4.0 of FreeBSD, and am finding many places where the
> outdated book 'The Complete FreeBSD 3rd ed.' that was packaged with the
> CDs I bought gives me inaccurate info.  One major thing is configuring my
> sound card.  I have an OPL3 sound card, and the book says something like:
> 
> controller snd0
> <card specifics here>
> 
> 4.0 uses the word device instead of controller according to when I try to
> build my kernel with my sound support added.  The problem I run into is
> when I do this:
> 
> /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL 
> it says "the sound drivers are deprecated, see /pcm/sbc/etc."
> 
> I copied my configuration directly from the man page for sb which it says
> OPL3 support (not OPL3 FM) is included in device sb
> 
> This is how my kernel looks for sound support:
> 
> device snd0
> device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> Is my man page also outdated?
> Thank you
> banksw@sunit.edu
> 
> 
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