misc/160446: Handbook sound setup seems outdated

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 4 03:50:09 UTC 2011


>Number:         160446
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Handbook sound setup seems outdated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 04 03:50:09 UTC 2011
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>Originator:     Glen Barber
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Submitted by (manek% ghur!net) via docs:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/sound-setup.html 

seems to be a little out of date, since it's focused on the expectation that
a creative labs card has been installed, which doesn't reflect the reality
that a majority of motherboards come with a building audio chipset.

Perhaps a mention of device snd_hda might be worthy of inclusion? Based on:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-September/004720.
html

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
PR generated so we don't lose track of this.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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