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

[Scott Long]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, 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.  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.

Scott