Known issues area on main wiki page

Tom Spear speeddymon at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 09:38:48 CST 2006


On 3/21/06, Robert Reif <reif at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> The reason I added the probe of all drivers in winecfg was so that the
> broken and marginal drivers would get used and hopefully fixed.  Moving
> the problem will just create different bugs: [BUG xxx] winecfg crashes
> when autodetect button pressed or [BUG yyy] winecfg crashes when driver
> xyz selected.
>
>
Yes, and I agree that that is a good idea, which is why I asked about
putting a known issues page somewhere where a lot of users will see it.  It
wouldnt just have to be used for the issue mentioned above.  It could be
done for anything that is frequently reported.  I'm going to go ahead and
get started on putting it in tonight.  Since it will be in the wiki, as the
issues are fixed, they can be removed, and as other issues become more
frequently reported, they can be added.  I think it will be a good
supplement to bugzilla and the appdb, as more people check out wiki's (as
well as README's) than do the appdb, and so therefore they will see that the
issue is already reported, and can find out what bug # it is instead of
filing a duplicate bug.  It also helps cut down on the number of bug
submissions in the comments of the appdb..

Tom
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