Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:02:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@m3designinc.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/41820: Device driver confusion in Handbook (2.3) Message-ID: <200208201702.g7KH2ppQ025866@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 41820
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Device driver confusion in Handbook (2.3)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 20 10:10:03 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jerry Dunham
>Release: 4.6
>Organization:
M3 Design, Inc.
>Environment:
Not finished installing yet. It can't find my SCSI CDD.
>Description:
I'm installing 4.6, working from the Handbook for the first time. As I worked through section 2.3 I found that the Active-drivers screen, with its long list of conflicting hardware I'd never seen before, conflicted with the device probe screen that followed. A friend informed me that the first screen was attempting (and not well) to deal with ISA cards (of which I have none) and the device probe screen was attempting (and doing well) to deal with PCI cards. I would never have figured this out from the explanation in 2.3, and spent some time frozen at that point of the install before I learned that all was really okay.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install 4.6 on a PCI system working from the Handbook, section 2.3.
>Fix:
Add some explanation of the two different device driver screens and explain that if you have a PCI-only machine you don't really need to worry about what shows in the Active-drivers screen.
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