[Ubuntu Wiki] Update of "DebuggingHardwareDetection" by penalvch

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The "DebuggingHardwareDetection" page has been changed by penalvch:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection?action=diff&rev1=23&rev2=24

Comment:
1) lsusb -> lsusb -v. 2) RM'd request for lspci -vvnn, dmesg, and cat proc/version_signature as redudant. See ## wiki comments.

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- ## 20121020 https://launchpad.net/~penalvch This article is obsolete. Now that we are in the apport era, when one files an bug against the linux package via ubuntu-bug linux, a requirement as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_Apport_Information all of the information, the information requested in this article is filed:
- ## BootDmesg.txt 
+ ## 20121021 https://launchpad.net/~penalvch Now that we are in the apport era, when one files a bug using it against the linux package via ubuntu-bug linux, a requirement as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_Apport_Information , the following attachments (that requesting is redundant) are automatically attached to the bug report:
+ ## BootDmesg.txt -> dmesg, gives very similar info as uname -a, and gives exactly same as cat 
- ## CurrentDmesg.txt
+ ## CurrentDmesg.txt -> dmesg
+ ## Lspci.txt -> lspci ---vvnn
- ## Lspci.txt
- ## Lsusb.txt
- ## As well as other helpful attachments:
- ## AlsaInfo.txt
- ## CRDA.txt
- ## Dependencies.txt
- ## IwConfig.txt
- ## ProcCpuinfo.txt
- ## ProcInterrupts.txt
- ## ProcModules.txt
- ## PulseList.txt
- ## UdevDb.txt
- ## UdevLog.txt
- ## WifiSyslog.txt
  
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  = Debugging procedure =
  
- = Reporting a bug =
+ == Reporting a bug ==
  
+  * When reporting a problem with hardware detection, you should report the bug against the [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux|linux]] kernel package.
- When reporting a problem with hardware detection, you should report the bug against the kernel.  Beginning with the Hardy release, all kernel bugs should be reported against the '''linux''' kernel source package.
- 
- Also, all reports should contain the following information.  Please be sure to '''attach''' these files to the bug report.
- 
-  * uname -a > uname-a.log
-  * cat /proc/version_signature > proc_version_signature.log
-  * sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log (those are 2 v's not a w)
-  * dmesg > dmesg.log
- 
- If the system is not correctly detecting a USB device, also '''attach''' the output of:
+  * If the system is not correctly detecting a USB device, also '''attach''' the output of:
- 
-  * lsusb > lsusb.log
+   * lsusb -v > lsusb-v.log
  
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