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

[Daniel T Chen]

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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

> 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.

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*'.

- -Dan
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