Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:17:18 +0100 From: Martin Heinen <martin@sumuk.de> To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg Message-ID: <20030119231717.B81266@sumuk.de> In-Reply-To: <20030119170912.GG4206@submonkey.net>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:09:12PM %2B0000 References: <20030119170912.GG4206@submonkey.net>
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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:09:12PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Any objections to the following patch ? > > It basically tells people to look in /var/run/dmesg.boot for their devices > instead of the output from dmesg, as that's not guaranteed to contain any > information on their devices at all. > ... > Index: multimedia/chapter.sgml > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml,v > retrieving revision 1.46 > diff -u -r1.46 chapter.sgml > --- multimedia/chapter.sgml 4 Dec 2002 02:48:45 -0000 1.46 > +++ multimedia/chapter.sgml 19 Jan 2003 17:07:12 -0000 > @@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ > <title>Creating and Testing the Device Nodes</title> > > <indexterm><primary>device nodes</primary></indexterm> > - <para>After you reboot, log in and run <command>dmesg | grep > - pcm</command> as shown below:</para> > + <para>After you reboot, log in and run <command>grep > + pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot</command> as shown below:</para> > > - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dmesg | grep pcm</userinput> > + <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>grep pcm /var/run/dmesg.boot</userinput> > pcm0: <SB16 DSP 4.11> on sbc0</screen> > > <para>The output from your system may look different. If no Both versions show the command in the text and <screen>-section. I think one time is sufficient. How about: <para>After you reboot, log in and run the following command:</para> No objections otherwise. -- Marxpitn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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