From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jan 19 14:17:31 2003 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 744DF37B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:17:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from Kain.sumuk.de (Kain.sumuk.de [213.221.86.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24F943ED8 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Moses.earth.sol (Moses.earth.sol [192.168.1.1]) by Kain.sumuk.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0JMHKd7003329; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:17:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Moses.earth.sol (localhost.earth.sol [127.0.0.1]) by Moses.earth.sol (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0JMHJLS082185; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:17:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@Moses.earth.sol) Received: (from vincent@localhost) by Moses.earth.sol (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h0JMHI4a082184; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:17:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:17:18 +0100 From: Martin Heinen To: Ceri Davies Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg Message-ID: <20030119231717.B81266@sumuk.de> References: <20030119170912.GG4206@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030119170912.GG4206@submonkey.net>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:09:12PM +0000 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 On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:09:12PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Any objections to the following patch ? > > It basically tells people to look in /var/run/dmesg.boot for their devices > instead of the output from dmesg, as that's not guaranteed to contain any > information on their devices at all. > ... > Index: multimedia/chapter.sgml > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.46 > diff -u -r1.46 chapter.sgml > --- multimedia/chapter.sgml 4 Dec 2002 02:48:45 -0000 1.46 > +++ multimedia/chapter.sgml 19 Jan 2003 17:07:12 -0000 > @@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ > Creating and Testing the Device Nodes > > device nodes > - After you reboot, log in and run dmesg | grep > - pcm as shown below: > + After you reboot, log in and run grep > + pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot as shown below: > > - &prompt.root; dmesg | grep pcm > + &prompt.root; grep pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot > pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.11> on sbc0 > > The output from your system may look different. If no Both versions show the command in the text and -section. I think one time is sufficient. How about: After you reboot, log in and run the following command: No objections otherwise. -- Marxpitn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message