Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:05:38 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Dave <xtalsinger@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to? Submit a new or ammended man page Message-ID: <20040204160538.GA97896@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <mhj12053lhag8fod5teq8f1u7fs6htp657@4ax.com> References: <mhj12053lhag8fod5teq8f1u7fs6htp657@4ax.com>
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:51:19AM +0000, Dave typed: > Re-posted due to no replies > > > Having spent some time trying to get the onboard sound working on an Intel > 845G M/B I eventually worked my way to the ich sound driver. If there had > been a man page for it, I'd probably have discovered this more quickly. > > Anyway, although still very much a newbie when it come to FreeBSD I've > created what I think may be the basics of a man page for this driver. Look at the groff_man(7) manual page for a description of the format of manpages. Or look in the source, e.g. /usr/src/share/man/man4/ichsmb.4 (Which, btw, looks a lot like what you created below) > The question is, how and who do i submit it to? The doc project page says > they don't do man pages. The usual way to supply patches is through the send-pr(1) mechanism. cheers, Ruben > If anyone on this list would like to comment on the content and or handle > it, then here it is: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > NAME > ich -- Intel/NVidia PCI bridge device driver > > SYNOPSIS > device ich > > DESCRIPTION > The ich bridge driver allows the generic audio drivers including > pcm(4) > to attach to the following PCI sound devices: > > o Intel 443MX > o Intel ICH (82801AA) > o Intel ICH (82801AB) > o Intel ICH2 (82801BA) > o Intel ICH3 (82801CA) > o Intel ICH4 (82801DB) (Volume controls not working?) > o Intel ICH5 (82801EB) > o SiS 7012 > o Nvidia nForce > o Nvidia nForce2 > o Nvidia nForce3 > o AMD-768 > o AMD-8111 > > > > HISTORY > unkown > > SEE ALSO > pcm(4) > > AUTHORS > Katsurajima Naoto <raven@katsurajima.seya.yokohama.jp> > Cameron Grant <cg@freebsd.org> > xtalsinger@blueyonder.co.uk (man page) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hope it's of some use and is vaguely correct. > > Dave > -- > Any speling misteaks are the reult of a bad insallation of mod_spelink. > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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