Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:34:15 -0700 From: kstewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mikko Heiskanen <mikko@whitecortex.net> Subject: Re: Soundcards on 6-current Message-ID: <200409111234.15910.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <418E947E-0424-11D9-B5F8-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> References: <20040911151028.56F2E5C28@whitecortex.net> <418E947E-0424-11D9-B5F8-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com>
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On Saturday 11 September 2004 11:56 am, Lucas Holt wrote: > **** BEGIN RANT **** > Why is everyone running 6 current and expecting it to work? They > just created that branch recently and I seriously doubt that its even > close to usable. We could run 5-Current because it was pretty far > along.. 6 is "new". > You have it backwards. They just created the RELENG_5 branch. Head or tag=., is still head.The name just became 6-current. You probably only need to kldload snd_driver to have sound. Look at you dmesg and see what was loaded. Kent > Last time i looked at the handbook it said NOT to run CURRENT unless > you are a developer/know what you are doing. I think 5.3 beta is > bleeding edge enough for everyone. > > Based on recent posts, i've concluded that several video cards and > possibly sound cards are currently broken in 6-Current plus maybe > some NICs. Translation: Don't try this at home. > > Another reason not to adopt 6 so early is that it encourages port > maintainers to screw over people on stable versions. I had to > upgrade to 5 early because of broken ports. Lets not go through that > again. I know technically that only the ports tree that comes with a > release is officially supported, but then again everyone always > recommends CVSUPing the ports on Questions. Besides, who wants to > run outdated and possibly insecure versions of software. > > **** END RANT **** > > On Sep 11, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Mikko Heiskanen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there support on 6.0-current for soundcards? > > I put the usual device pcm on kernconf, but it says > > it don't know about that. I tried device sound, it compiles, > > but there don't come support. If it's not supposed to, sorry > > for this message. > > > > Thank you for your time, > > Mikko > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Lucas Holt > Luke@FoolishGames.com > ________________________________________________________ > FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) > JustJournal.com (Free blogging) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html Support the Bison at http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/
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