From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 30 20:17:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from treehouse.askee.net (dsl027-164-142.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.27.164.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C5237B403 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bkennedy@treehouse.askee.net) Received: (from bkennedy@localhost) by treehouse.askee.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f613HsM01938 for doc@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:17:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bkennedy) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:17:54 -0400 From: Bryan Kennedy To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion for adding stuff to the handbook Message-ID: <20010630231754.A979@treehouse.askee.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 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