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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Removing Noatun from cvs
From:       Christian Esken <c.esken () cityweb ! de>
Date:       2001-08-25 20:23:46
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On Saturday 25 August 2001 20:30, Martin Konold wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> >  * we have OSS and ALSA,
> >
> >     - OSS drivers are often basically unmaintained
> > 	- ALSA does not yet provide a stable API
> >
> >  * a lot of bugs that people report as artsd bugs are really bugs in the
> >    driver, because just nobody tests drivers with more than just XMMS and
> >    maybe quake, which together just use a very limited feature set
>
> What could be done so that users can better debug if the problem is
> OSS/ALSA related or a artsd or a noatun problem?
>
> Maybe some tests during startup of artsd could help?

No. That's not so easy. It normally takes user interaction to find out
if everthing is OK.

Possibly one could write a separate "Test Soundcard" program.
The thing could play sounds and ask the user stuff like
"Did you hear one or more beeps?".
Other tests can be made automatically (w/o) user interaction, e.g.
test what the driver claims to support.

Christian

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