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Date:      Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:33:08 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: HEADSUP: Soekris and generic LED/lamp support in FreeBSD-current
Message-ID:  <20031107223308.GI34063@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031107214402.GF94805@cnd.mcgill.ca>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031104210859.71158B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200311071643.hA7GhB1j094261@intruder.kitchenlab.org> <20031107204812.GD374@arthur.nitro.dk> <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> <20031107214402.GF94805@cnd.mcgill.ca>

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* Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> [031107 13:46] wrote:
> > 
> > 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?

I dunno, maybe some tool to dig that info out would also help.

> > Can't
> > we just have a "kldload sound" thing that will load them all? 
> 
> 	kldload snd_driver?

That would be nice.

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- Alfred Perlstein
- Research Engineering Development Inc.
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