Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:36:06 -0500 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: HEADSUP: Soekris and generic LED/lamp support in FreeBSD-current Message-ID: <20031107223606.GI94805@cnd.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <20031107152814.Y51343@pooker.samsco.home> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031104210859.71158B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20031107204812.GD374@arthur.nitro.dk> <20031107210525.GG34063@elvis.mu.org> <20031107152814.Y51343@pooker.samsco.home>
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On Nov 07, Scott Long wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Simon L. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> [031107 12:48] wrote: > > > On 2003.11.07 08:43:11 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > > > > I encourage people interested in writing / importing manpages for these > > > > drivers to self-organize on the doc@ list. Note that even a "stub" > > > > manual page with a one-line description of a driver and the > > > > corresponding entries from the hardware notes would be of value. > > > > > > I have converted Bruce's list into a TODO list [1]. If anybody start > > > writing one of the missing manual pages, please update the TODO list to > > > avoid duplicate work. > > > > > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html#sec4manualpages > > > (after next web build) > > > > 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. Can't > > we just have a "kldload sound" thing that will load them all? > > We've had that for years. Loading snd_driver.ko loads all of the sound > drivers. Unloading it then unloads all of the drivers that didn't attach. > I thought that it was documented somewhere but apparently it isn't. kldunload should unload all driver. I plan to augment /dev/sndstat to show which driver is actually behind the device. --Mat -- Having your book made into a movie is like having your ox made into a bouillon cube. - Bill Neely
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