5.3-BETA3: "man pcm" has wrong information

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 16 09:57:57 PDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:47:17PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote:
> Zitat von Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org>:
> 
> > "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").
> 
> Hi Ruslan,
> 
> I cannot find device drivers in NOTES for Creative Soundblaster PCI
> cards. For example, what can I do to use a SB Live?
> 
You're looking for snd_emu10k1(4).  The manpage is available in
-CURRENT, and here:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=snd_emu10k1&manpath=FreeBSD%206.0-current


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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