On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:16:35AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:32:21 +0900 > > From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Do following remarks belong to stable or current (or elsewhere) ? > > > > This is for 5.3-BETA3. When I do 'man pcm', it tells me to use > > > > device pcm > > > > in the kernel configuration file, but for 5.3 this is incorrect. > > It should be 'device sound' with the additional sound device > > module. > > > > Is the pcm manpage forgotten to be updated for 5.3 ? > > It was updated in head about a week ago. I hope it will MT5 shortly. > Ruslan, in consultation with cg, did a major re-work of the sound > pages. You can get the latest and greatest from CVS for HEAD. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/man/man4/ > "Major" is overestimated here -- just some small tweaks to the current text to adopt to reality. The Handbook's sound chapter has also been updated. For one, the SYNOPSIS of the sound(4) manpage is lying about that you need only "device sound" to get you sound -- you also need "device snd_<driver>".
Once the sound-related renaming is done (there are further plans to do some more renames for better consistency in naming), the sound(4) manpage will be replaced by the snd(4) manpage (yeah, welcome back, old good "snd"). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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