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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:39:31 -0500
From:      Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?
Message-ID:  <E1RySiR-000Iwl-DD@hans3>
In-Reply-To: <4F3E94C2.9020201@FreeBSD.org> (message from Alexander Motin on Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:56:18 %2B0200)
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,--- You/Alexander (Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:56:18 +0200) ----*
| On 02/17/12 19:43, Alex Goncharov wrote:
| > A technical question: I have the saved (from 8) copies of
| > /boot/device.hints for the laptops in question which have lines like:
| > ...
| > What's the best way to use this in 9?  To add to the bottom of
| > /boot/device.hints?  Or use in /boot/loader.conf somehow?
| 
| I am not ready to tell you which way is more correct in theory, because 
| in practice all of them are working. I personally prefer to have 
| everything set in my /boot/loader.conf. The syntax is equal.

OK, I've never done it before, but now I added the "hint.hdac...."
line to /boot/loader.conf, instead of device.hints (and I commented
out snd_hda_load="YES" there).

Rebooted, plugged in the headphones: the sound goes there all right.

Thank you for your help!

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --




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