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From: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Gerald Pfeifer)
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, Moses Moore <jm-moses@home.com>
Cc: admin@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Subject: Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
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>Number:         23910
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 28 11:50:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 17 16:58:43 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 17 17:00:29 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Gerald Pfeifer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386
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>Description:

	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/sound.html really proved useful
	when I, today, for the first time I configured a soundcard with
	FreeBSD. However, I stumbled over two (minor) issues:

	1. For on-board sound "cards", one also wants to add
	     options PNPBIOS
	   to the kernel config.

	2. `cat /dev/sndstat` did not work until I executed
	      cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV snd0

	   Before MAKEDEV I got "No such file or directory"; afterwards
	      FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Dec 28 2000 19:02:45
	      Installed devices:
	      pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> at io 0xc400 irq 11 (1p/1r channels duplex)
	   That is, it was exactly the other around than stated in section
	   14.4 of the manual.

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From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, cg@freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
	Moses Moore <jm-moses@home.com>, admin@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Subject: Re: docs/23910: Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:10:18 +0000

 Cameron,
 
 I'm bringing you in on this, as FreeBSD's "Mr Audio".
 
 On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 08:44:25PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
 > >Number:         23910
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
 > 
 > 	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/sound.html really proved useful
 > 	when I, today, for the first time I configured a soundcard with
 > 	FreeBSD. However, I stumbled over two (minor) issues:
 > 
 > 	1. For on-board sound "cards", one also wants to add
 > 	     options PNPBIOS
 > 	   to the kernel config.
 
 Is that right?  If so, on which versions of FreeBSD?  My -current laptop
 doesn't need it, and the built in audio on there works OK.
 
 > 	2. `cat /dev/sndstat` did not work until I executed
 > 	      cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV snd0
 > 
 > 	   Before MAKEDEV I got "No such file or directory"; afterwards
 > 	      FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Dec 28 2000 19:02:45
 > 	      Installed devices:
 > 	      pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> at io 0xc400 irq 11 (1p/1r channels duplex)
 > 	   That is, it was exactly the other around than stated in section
 > 	   14.4 of the manual.
 
 This does seem to be a problem.  Perhaps we could pull out sndstat from
 all the other snd* devices in MAKEDEV, and then say something like
 
   You must determine which set of sound devices to make, depending on
   your audio hardware.  Fortunately, the audio driver can tell you 
   what is required.
 
   Run the following, to create a /dev/sndstat device, and query it.
 
     # cd /dev
     # sh MAKEDEV sndstat
     # cat sndstat
 
   [...]
 
 and then continue with the rest of the text as normal?
 
 N
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From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc: <cg@freebsd.org>, <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>,
	Moses Moore <jm-moses@home.com>, <admin@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: docs/23910: Handbook Chapter 14. Sound -- some fixes
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 02:22:11 +0100 (CET)

 On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Nik Clayton wrote:
 >> 	1. For on-board sound "cards", one also wants to add
 >> 	     options PNPBIOS
 >> 	   to the kernel config.
 > Is that right?  If so, on which versions of FreeBSD?
 
 Well, it's right in the sense that without that option ``it just didn't
 work'', while with this change it worked fine.
 
 This was on a 4.2-RELEASE box with some Athlon-board; if you're interested
 in the exact product name and manufacturer, I can obtain these.
 
 Gerald
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: chern 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 17 16:58:43 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mentioned another way of deciding between snd0/snd1, and mentioned 
'options PNPBIOS' in chapter.  See r1.19, Thanks! 


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