Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:17:54 -0400 From: Bryan Kennedy <bkennedy@treehouse.askee.net> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion for adding stuff to the handbook Message-ID: <20010630231754.A979@treehouse.askee.net>
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Hello, I'm a new FreeBSD user, and I've a suggestion for your handbook (the one on www.freebsd.org). I installed and cvsup'ed and all the good stuff as described to get everything up to date with stable. Then I tried to get my SoundBlaster Live (value) to work. This took longer than installing to begin with. I'd like to suggest the following: Section 14.4 begins with "cat /dev/sndstat". My system didn't have sndstat in /dev. I rebuild the world and kernel all over again, thinking that perhaps I'd done something wrong. Still no dice. So I looked through the MAKEDEV stuff and saw part about mknod sndstat. I took a chance and ran it anyway. Success! I'd suggest adding a note about what to do if sndstat doesn't exist (I don't know that blindly running MAKEDEV is the best idea). Overall your handbook has been a huge help... keep up the good work! -- Bryan Kennedy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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