HEADSUP: Soekris and generic LED/lamp support in FreeBSD-current

[Mathew Kanner]

On Nov 07, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Simon L. Nielsen <simon at 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.  

	Listing chipsets doesn't really help, how would an average
user know what chipset they have?

> Can't
> we just have a "kldload sound" thing that will load them all? 

	kldload snd_driver?

	--Mat
> 
> Also the manpage for sound should explain how to load the drivers.
> 
> 
> 
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