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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: C4232 Sound Drivers
To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:28:35 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199810201112.NAA10936@ocean.campus.luth.se> from "Mikael Karpberg" at Oct 20, 98 01:11:46 pm
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> > >  This is a CS4232, but LDN 0 is disabled
> > >  pcm0 not found
> > 
> > which , if you read it,is exlicit enough... you have to enable the
> > device using the manual pnp config booting with -c
> > 
> > "man pnp", "man pcm", read /sys/i386/isa/snd/{CARDS,README}
> 
> Er... Luigi? That is FAR from "explicit enough" :-)
> It's damn cryptic actually. I think it might be a good idea to change that
> message to:
> This is a CS4232, but LDN 0 is disabled (To enable: "man pnp" and "man pcm")
> 
> Or something of that sort. It might save quite a few questions from people.
> Just an idea...

i have never seen references to manpages in device driver's diagnostic
at least in FreeBSD. Most drivers just tell you "not found" and that's
it. And referring the device's manpage seems a bit obvious... if the
line before says "Probing PnP devices" and the one next reports a
problem with "pcm0", what manpage would you look at ?

    man found ? man not ? man probing ?

But if people like this approach, i have no objections. I just don't see
a way to put 

	cheers
	luigi

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