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[Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)]

Jesse Allen wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Mike McCormack <mike at codeweavers.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dimi Paun wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:28 -0600, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin
>>> Navea) wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> clicking on the audio tab to check out bug 4051 first? Please!
>>>>         
>>> How about we fix the problem instead? :)
>>>       
>> The best way to fix it is probably to rearrange the code so that the
>> Audio tab shows, then there's a [Detect] button that the user can click
>> to run the autodetect code that might crash.  At least then the user can
>> set their Wine Audio settings manually.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
> This is not enough, as when I click the audio tab, it will lock up in
> the kernel.  I already identified where it happens and patch the
> kernel myself.  I told the ALSA devs, but they haven't looked at why
> certain register usage causes a lockup.  So it remains in the stable
> kernel who knows who else hits it.
>
> Jesse
>
>   
Which is why I agree with the ideas from Mike and Dimi AND Segin..  Why 
not put an autodetect button, have the exception handler catch the crash 
if arts decides to die, and then still have a popup dialog for when arts 
is manually selected that tells users it is buggy and not recommended to 
use?  That doesn't fix your specific problem Jesse, I know, but at least 
it keeps winecfg open when you click on the audio tab.

Tom