From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 14:38:23 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 4CBFC16A4CF; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.cnd.mcgill.ca (hak.cnd.mcgill.ca [132.216.11.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EB943FBD; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:38:21 -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 hA7Ma6k4097980; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:36:07 -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 hA7Ma6ex097979; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:36:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:36:06 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20031107223606.GI94805@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20031107204812.GD374@arthur.nitro.dk> <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> <20031107152814.Y51343@pooker.samsco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031107152814.Y51343@pooker.samsco.home> 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: Alfred Perlstein cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" cc: multimedia@freebsd.org 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 22:38:23 -0000 On Nov 07, Scott Long wrote: > 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. kldunload should unload all driver. I plan to augment /dev/sndstat to show which driver is actually behind the device. --Mat -- Having your book made into a movie is like having your ox made into a bouillon cube. - Bill Neely