From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 13:46:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6232716A4CE; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (hak.cnd.mcgill.ca [132.216.11.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765A443FBD; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hA7Li2k4097464; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:44:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id hA7Li2QN097463; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:44:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:44:02 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: Alfred Perlstein Message-ID: <20031107214402.GF94805@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <200311071643.hA7GhB1j094261@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <20031107204812.GD374@arthur.nitro.dk> <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: I speak for myself, operating in Montreal, CANADA X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on hak.cnd.mcgill.ca cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: multimedia@freebsd.org cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Soekris and generic LED/lamp support in FreeBSD-current X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:46:18 -0000 On Nov 07, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Simon L. Nielsen [031107 12:48] wrote: > > On 2003.11.07 08:43:11 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > > I encourage people interested in writing / importing manpages for these > > > drivers to self-organize on the doc@ list. Note that even a "stub" > > > manual page with a one-line description of a driver and the > > > corresponding entries from the hardware notes would be of value. > > > > I have converted Bruce's list into a TODO list [1]. If anybody start > > writing one of the missing manual pages, please update the TODO list to > > avoid duplicate work. > > > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html#sec4manualpages > > (after next web build) > > On the subject, there needs to be a sound(4) manpage that explains > exactly which module to load for each chipset. Getting sound on > FreeBSD working isn't so cool. While having the modules split up > into a dozen or so parts for different chipsets is cool from > an engineering perspective, it's pretty confusing to users. Listing chipsets doesn't really help, how would an average user know what chipset they have? > Can't > we just have a "kldload sound" thing that will load them all? kldload snd_driver? --Mat > > Also the manpage for sound should explain how to load the drivers. > > > > -- > - Alfred Perlstein > - Research Engineering Development Inc. > - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- (on the United States) Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and eventempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau