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

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Fri Nov 7 14:33:09 PST 2003


* Mathew Kanner <mat at cnd.mcgill.ca> [031107 13:46] wrote:
> > 
> > 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?

I dunno, maybe some tool to dig that info out would also help.

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

That would be nice.

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