How to? Submit a new or ammended man page
Ruben de Groot
mail25 at bzerk.org
Wed Feb 4 08:03:25 PST 2004
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:51:19AM +0000, Dave typed:
> Re-posted due to no replies
>
>
> Having spent some time trying to get the onboard sound working on an Intel
> 845G M/B I eventually worked my way to the ich sound driver. If there had
> been a man page for it, I'd probably have discovered this more quickly.
>
> Anyway, although still very much a newbie when it come to FreeBSD I've
> created what I think may be the basics of a man page for this driver.
Look at the groff_man(7) manual page for a description of the format of
manpages. Or look in the source, e.g.
/usr/src/share/man/man4/ichsmb.4
(Which, btw, looks a lot like what you created below)
> The question is, how and who do i submit it to? The doc project page says
> they don't do man pages.
The usual way to supply patches is through the send-pr(1) mechanism.
cheers,
Ruben
> If anyone on this list would like to comment on the content and or handle
> it, then here it is:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> NAME
> ich -- Intel/NVidia PCI bridge device driver
>
> SYNOPSIS
> device ich
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The ich bridge driver allows the generic audio drivers including
> pcm(4)
> to attach to the following PCI sound devices:
>
> o Intel 443MX
> o Intel ICH (82801AA)
> o Intel ICH (82801AB)
> o Intel ICH2 (82801BA)
> o Intel ICH3 (82801CA)
> o Intel ICH4 (82801DB) (Volume controls not working?)
> o Intel ICH5 (82801EB)
> o SiS 7012
> o Nvidia nForce
> o Nvidia nForce2
> o Nvidia nForce3
> o AMD-768
> o AMD-8111
>
>
>
> HISTORY
> unkown
>
> SEE ALSO
> pcm(4)
>
> AUTHORS
> Katsurajima Naoto <raven at katsurajima.seya.yokohama.jp>
> Cameron Grant <cg at freebsd.org>
> xtalsinger at blueyonder.co.uk (man page)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hope it's of some use and is vaguely correct.
>
> Dave
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