From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 19:45:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D381337B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:45:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 20392 invoked by uid 100); 19 Mar 2001 03:45:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15029.32975.653041.404732@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:45:19 -0600 To: =?Windows-1252?Q?Rickard_Borgm=E4ster?= Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current vs Stable for specific driver support? In-Reply-To: <4848442@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =?Windows-1252?Q?Rickard_Borgm=E4ster?= types: > Hi! > > I'm new to *BSD in common and have just gotten my machine up'n'running. > > I read the FreeBSD handbook and saw that the Soundblaster Live! card > should be (experimental) supported. Since I have such a card and want > to use it I suppose I need to go to a CURRENT kernel, right? First, on BSD you can't mix-n-match kernels. Even on the same branch, much less across them, running a kernel and userland built from different branches is not supported. Second, that's not what -current is for. To quote the handbook: 19.2.1.3. What is FreeBSD-CURRENT not? 1. A fast-track to getting pre-release bits [...] 2. A quick way of getting bug fixes. 3. In any way ``officially supported'' by us. [...] As a rule of thumb, if you're not able to take a kernel core dump and figure out where the problem is (even if you can't fix it), you probably shouldn't be running -current on any machine you actually use. [From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NEWCARD ] > Then one line that confused me was: > # CURRENT STATUS OF CODE: NOT WORKING. Use PCCARD instead. > > Does this mean that I am unable to compile a working kernel out of > the source codes I have? And thereby meaning that I cannot use my > sound card? No, it means that you aren't going to be able to use the NEWCARD code to talk to PC cards. This is discussed on the current@freebsd.org mail list, which you should be reading if you're going to be running -current. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message