PowerTOP: audio device active 100% of the time, how to file bug?

[Daniel Chen]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> interesting bug you might want to take a look at...
> different levels of device activity in ubuntu v. kubuntu?

This symptom certainly isn't specific to any hardware and must be
caused by the specific applications that are polling the device via
alsa-lib.


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alexander van Loon <a.vanloon at alexandervanloon.nl>
> To: kubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:05:51 +0100
> Subject: PowerTOP: audio device active 100% of the time, how to file bug?
> Please see this – https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/521424 – bug
> report. To make a long story short: PowerTOP notices that one or two
> audio devices are active 100% of the time, thus causing unnecessary
> power consumption. However, this only occurred on Kubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu
> 9.10 wasn’t affected and had a significantly lower power consumption.
> The problem is still present on Kubuntu Lucid, both with the standard
> kernel and the 2.6.33 kernel. This was all tested with fresh
> installations.
>
> As you can read in my bug report, I spent quite some time researching
> this and figuring out what was going on, but I still wasn’t sure for
> which package I should file a bug report, and to whom it should be
> assigned, exactly because only Kubuntu seems to be affected. The bug
> report is a few weeks old now, without any response.

Please do not assign bugs to the ubuntu-audio team unless we
specifically request it. It's rather rude, and the torrential bugs
mean that your report is likely to slip through the cracks.

I've changed the affected source package to phonon -- yes, likely
incorrect -- in the hopes that someone more familiar with Kubuntu's
configuration can take a look.


> My question is, can anyone tell me to which person(s) I should bring
> this bug to attention, and what information I should provide in my bug
> report to help getting it fixed?

apport-collect -p alsa-base 521424

is a starting point, but I want to reiterate that this symptom isn't
an audio stack issue.

-Dan