From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 2 6:34: 4 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 5F07E37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1300143E65 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:34:02 -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 GAA17718; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:34:00 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id GAA07525; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200210021333.GAA07525@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3D9AE859.8050209@centtech.com> (message from Eric Anderson on Wed, 02 Oct 2002 07:36:41 -0500) Subject: Re: Doc update 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 >It would be great to have a list of "no need to build the kernel if you >are just trying to do these things:" items.. That would save a lot of >time. Who would know that list? That's a good question. To add more complexity to the discussion there are actually two types of "little tweaks" one could do. The first is to put something in loader.conf: foo_load="YES" The second is to put something in rc.local or the more modern /usr/local/etc/rc.d which says kldload foo It may have been that I was doing something wrong, but I found that I could not get sound loaded with the former, but I could with the latter (I think I tried both snd and pcm for my "foo" above -- it was a while ago). Of course, one could say that there are as many things to put on that list as there are .ko files in the default install of /modules, but I think such a list only needs to have the most common things in it (sound and apm related stuff for two). -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message