From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 08:03:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C648816A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:03:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE61F43D1F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i14G5cTZ098111; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:05:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i14G5cvS098110; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:05:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail25@bzerk.org using -f Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:05:38 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Dave Message-ID: <20040204160538.GA97896@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Dave , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to? Submit a new or ammended man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:03:25 -0000 On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:51:19AM +0000, Dave typed: > Re-posted due to no replies > > > Having spent some time trying to get the onboard sound working on an Intel > 845G M/B I eventually worked my way to the ich sound driver. If there had > been a man page for it, I'd probably have discovered this more quickly. > > Anyway, although still very much a newbie when it come to FreeBSD I've > created what I think may be the basics of a man page for this driver. Look at the groff_man(7) manual page for a description of the format of manpages. Or look in the source, e.g. /usr/src/share/man/man4/ichsmb.4 (Which, btw, looks a lot like what you created below) > The question is, how and who do i submit it to? The doc project page says > they don't do man pages. The usual way to supply patches is through the send-pr(1) mechanism. cheers, Ruben > If anyone on this list would like to comment on the content and or handle > it, then here it is: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > NAME > ich -- Intel/NVidia PCI bridge device driver > > SYNOPSIS > device ich > > DESCRIPTION > The ich bridge driver allows the generic audio drivers including > pcm(4) > to attach to the following PCI sound devices: > > o Intel 443MX > o Intel ICH (82801AA) > o Intel ICH (82801AB) > o Intel ICH2 (82801BA) > o Intel ICH3 (82801CA) > o Intel ICH4 (82801DB) (Volume controls not working?) > o Intel ICH5 (82801EB) > o SiS 7012 > o Nvidia nForce > o Nvidia nForce2 > o Nvidia nForce3 > o AMD-768 > o AMD-8111 > > > > HISTORY > unkown > > SEE ALSO > pcm(4) > > AUTHORS > Katsurajima Naoto > Cameron Grant > xtalsinger@blueyonder.co.uk (man page) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hope it's of some use and is vaguely correct. > > Dave > -- > Any speling misteaks are the reult of a bad insallation of mod_spelink. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"