From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 14:27:58 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 1D72616A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:27:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E550A43FFB for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:27:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 57267 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Nov 2003 22:27:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.4.1.5?) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 7 Nov 2003 22:27:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:31:19 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long X-X-Sender: scottl@pooker.samsco.home To: Alfred Perlstein In-Reply-To: <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: <20031107152814.Y51343@pooker.samsco.home> References: <20031107204812.GD374@arthur.nitro.dk> <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: 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 22:27:58 -0000 On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, 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. Can't > we just have a "kldload sound" thing that will load them all? We've had that for years. Loading snd_driver.ko loads all of the sound drivers. Unloading it then unloads all of the drivers that didn't attach. I thought that it was documented somewhere but apparently it isn't. Scott