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

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 3:19:01 pm Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:48:56PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Indeed, I realize these packages don't actually contain the drivers we 
ship,
> > though I thought it made more sense to ship the hook with alsa-base than
> > in the kernel package.  It's easier to change there, and it can still be
> > used by any package.
> > 
> > Do you think that all kernel bugs should include the ALSA info as well?  
If
> > so, that's easy to add to the kernel package hook.  If not, I think
> > apport-collect -p alsa-base is probably the best we can do for now, since 
we
> > don't know which bugs are ALSA-related until they get reviewed by a human.
> > 
> > There's some talk of adding more interactivity to ubuntu-bug in Karmic, so
> > we could ask enough questions to know what information to attach.
> 
> It might be slick to have a means to file a bug based on "symptom".
> 
>  ubuntu-bug -s sound
>  ubuntu-bug -s keyboard
>  ubuntu-bug -p xorg -s resolution

Oh, I like that! But that should still be optional so that if it's something 
not-very-transparent/specific like a crash on suspend where who knows what 
driver is the issue all the info for all the subsystems get uploaded too.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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