alsa apport hook (Re: It is 2009 and I am still hearing my pc speaker)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:32:58PM -0400, Daniel T Chen wrote:
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> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
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> > Most sound driver bugs are supposed to be reported against linux, *not* alsa-
> > driver (doesn't stop people from trying, though the DebuggingSoundProblems
> > wiki page says not to).  The driver stuff is included in the kernel.  Alsa-
> > driver generates alsa-src, which is for compiling locally (usually w/ module
> > assistant) and is a rather pristine upstream tarball (none of Dan's & Luke's
> > patches) along with, as you said, alsa-base.
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> For the purpose of using apport for bug reporting/triaging, -p alsa-base 
> will be much better than the current default. Triagers can ask for output 
> from `cat /proc/interrupts' and `sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp* /dev/snd/* 
> /dev/seq*'.

If audio bugs are filed on the kernel, they will get /proc/interrupts by
default.  Triage step #1 can be to run apport-collect -p alsa-base.

We should work out a way to get the fuser information automatically in
the alsa apport hook.

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 - mdz