Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 22:50:08 -0400 From: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: docs@freebsd.org Subject: Bug: "Man sb" , "man pcm, "man sbc" and the "controller" keyword Message-ID: <LAW2-F22kwtsQztQoPA00015910@hotmail.com>
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Hi, I guess this is my area of turmoil during my sound chip (CS4239 on Thinkpad 600E) testing during the weekend. I found a few errors in the man pages. Sidenote: The new way to compile kernels and old way to compile kernels. The FreeBSD handbook (09/09/01) states a new way and old way. The old way is similar to Greg Lehey's book,"The Complete FreeBSD: Third Edition (pages 361-363)", which I hope this book gets updated to reflect 4.x. I thought correct kernel compiling methods is another things we should look at since many people are doing it. What gets me is that we may be compiling kernels based on misinformation (old information). 1. "controller xxx" is mentioned many times in the different documentation (like "man sb") yet CONFIG tells you this command is depreciated. CONFIG will tell you to replace "controller" with the word "device" when you are trying to build your kernel. The problem with that was during the time I was to try "controller pnp0" I found out that if you try "device pnp0" it will not work either. 2. The snd drivers are depreciated in which you are told to use in the man pages of "man sbc", "man sb", and "man pcm". The documentation in these man pages are not very clear in some cases or will tell you to do things that are no longer valid procedures. Sidenote: Basically, this might not get fixed so late in the game but something to do for the -STABLE series. I hope everybody can pick up a copy of the latest handbook (09/09/01) off of: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.txt.zip I understand what many people go through trying to keep documentation updated nowadays. Just hope pointing out these issues helps someone. Ken 4.4RC4 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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