Debugging Sound Problems

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:44:49PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 2011-03-02 22:24, Brian Murray wrote:
> >I used the apport audio symptom for the first time in quite a while and
> >I have to say is really awesome!
> 
> Thanks! :-) Although the Natty version hasn't received much
> attention/testing yet and so there might be a bug or two lurking
> around in that code.
> 
> >Having said that I'm a bit confused as
> >the bug I reported[1] was filed with an alsa-driver task yet the
> >debugging sound problems wiki page[2] says:
> >
> >In general, no-sound/low-sound/headphone-no-sound/no auto-mute/etc. bugs
> >should be:
> >
> >     1) Filed against the linux source package.
> >     2) Add the kernel-sound tag
> >
> >My bug falls into the headphone-no-sound category (I'm pretty sure) and
> >it seems to me that this should be detectable by the symptom.  So is the
> >wiki page incorrect or does the audio apport symptom need some tweaking?
> 
> Well, technically it should be filed under Linux, but, apport
> doesn't support auto-subscribing the ubuntu-audio-team to the bug,

That seems like a useful feature to add to apport.  Have you reported a
bug about it?

> so therefore we decided to keep them under alsa-driver for the time
> being so we audio triagers could get notifications about them
> automatically.

There are a couple of other ways of approaching this.

1) File them about linux anyway and add a tag to the hook that
identifies them

2) Do one of
 a) having a bug bot (the kernel team's arsenal scripts or the one I am
maintaining) subscribe ubuntu-audio-team to the bugs with that tag
 b) wait for Launchpads subscribe to tagged bugs about a package to be
exposed (its real soon now I hear)

One could likely do 2a and then move 2b.  If they really belong under
linux I'd update the audio symptom for Natty.

Well, I guess another idea would be to have a bug bot move them from
alsa-driver to linux and subscribe the team.  Let me know if I can help.

-- 
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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