changeset 7100:9e641d749832

Cosmetics: Indented code and inserted empty lines.
author diego
date Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:00:39 +0000
parents 0b70f3dc34eb
children ed54a7bba268
files DOCS/bugreports.html
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--- a/DOCS/bugreports.html	Tue Aug 27 18:06:07 2002 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/bugreports.html	Tue Aug 27 21:00:39 2002 +0000
@@ -15,120 +15,120 @@
 <P><B>How to fix bugs</B></P>
 
 <P>If you feel have the necessary skills you are invited to have a go at fixing
-the bug yourself.  Or maybe you already did that?  Please read
-<A HREF="tech/patches.txt">this short document</A> to find out how to get your
-code included in <B>MPlayer</B>. The people on the
-<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">mplayer-dev-eng</A>
-mailing list will assist you if you have questions.</P>
+  the bug yourself.  Or maybe you already did that?  Please read
+  <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">this short document</A> to find out how to get
+  your code included in <B>MPlayer</B>. The people on the
+  <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">mplayer-dev-eng</A>
+  mailing list will assist you if you have questions.</P>
 
 <P><B>How to report bugs</B></P>
 
 <P>First of all please try the latest CVS version of <B>MPlayer</B> as your bug
-might already be fixed there. CVS instructions can be found at the bottom of
-<A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">this page</A> or in the
-README. If this did not help please refer to
-<A HREF="documentation.html#known_bugs">the list of known bugs</A> and the rest of the
-documentation. If your problem is not known or not solvable by our instructions,
-then please report the bug.</P>
+  might already be fixed there. CVS instructions can be found at the bottom of
+  <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">this page</A> or in the
+  README. If this did not help please refer to
+  <A HREF="documentation.html#known_bugs">the list of known bugs</A> and the
+  rest of the documentation. If your problem is not known or not solvable by our
+  instructions, then please report the bug.</P>
 
 <P>Please do not send bug reports privately to individual developers.  This is
-community work and thus there might be several people interested in it.
-Sometimes other users already experienced your troubles and know how to
-circumvent a problem even if it is a bug in <B>MPlayer</B> code.</P>
+  community work and thus there might be several people interested in it.
+  Sometimes other users already experienced your troubles and know how to
+  circumvent a problem even if it is a bug in <B>MPlayer</B> code.</P>
 
 <P>Please describe your problem in as much detail as possible. Do a little
-detective work to narrow down the circumstances under which the problem occurs.
-Does the bug only show up in certain situations? Is it specific to certain files
-or file types? Does it occur with only one codec or is it codec independent?
-Can you reproduce it with all output drivers? The more information you provide
-the better are our chances at fixing your problem. Please do not forget to
-also include the valuable information requested below, we will be unable to
-properly diagnose your problem otherwise.</P>
+  detective work to narrow down the circumstances under which the problem
+  occurs. Does the bug only show up in certain situations? Is it specific to
+  certain files or file types? Does it occur with only one codec or is it codec
+  independent? Can you reproduce it with all output drivers? The more
+  information you provide the better are our chances at fixing your problem.
+  Please do not forget to also include the valuable information requested below,
+  we will be unable to properly diagnose your problem otherwise.</P>
 
 <P>An excellent and well written guide to asking questions in public forums is
-<A HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">How To Ask
-Questions The Smart Way</A> by Eric S. Raymond. If you follow these guidelines
-you should be safe. But please understand that we all follow the mailing lists
-voluntarily in our free time. We are very busy and cannot guarantee that you
-will get a solution for your problem or even an answer. </P>
+  <A HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">How To Ask
+  Questions The Smart Way</A> by Eric S. Raymond. If you follow these guidelines
+  you should be safe. But please understand that we all follow the mailing lists
+  voluntarily in our free time. We are very busy and cannot guarantee that you
+  will get a solution for your problem or even an answer.</P>
 
 <P><B>Where to report bugs?</B></P>
 
 <P>Subscribe to the mplayer-users mailing list:<BR>
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A><BR>
-and send your bug report to:<BR>
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="mailto:mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu">mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu</A></P>
+  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A><BR>
+  and send your bug report to:<BR>
+  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="mailto:mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu">mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu</A></P>
 
 <P>The language of this list is <B>English</B>. Please follow the standard
-<A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt">Netiquette Guidelines</A> and
-<B>do not send HTML mail</B> to any of our mailing lists.  You will only get
-ignored or banned. Also note that we will not individually CC (carbon-copy)
-people so it is a good idea to subscribe to actually receive your answer.</P>
+  <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt">Netiquette Guidelines</A> and
+  <B>do not send HTML mail</B> to any of our mailing lists.  You will only get
+  ignored or banned. Also note that we will not individually CC (carbon-copy)
+  people so it is a good idea to subscribe to actually receive your answer.</P>
 
 <P><B>What to report?</B></P>
 
 <P><B>System Information</B></P>
 
 <UL>
-<LI>Your Linux distribution or operating system e.g.:
+  <LI>Your Linux distribution or operating system e.g.:
     <UL>
-        <LI>Red Hat 7.1</LI>
-        <LI>Slackware 7.0 + devel packs from 7.1 ...</LI>
+      <LI>Red Hat 7.1</LI>
+      <LI>Slackware 7.0 + devel packs from 7.1 ...</LI>
     </UL>
-</LI>
-<LI>kernel version:<BR>
-    <CODE>uname -a</CODE></LI>
-<LI>libc version:<BR>
-    <CODE>ls -l /lib/libc[.-]*</CODE></LI>
-<LI>X version:<BR>
-    <CODE>X -version</CODE></LI>
-<LI>gcc and ld versions:<BR>
-    <CODE>gcc -v<BR>
-    ld -v</CODE></LI>
-<LI>binutils version:<BR>
-    <CODE>as --version</CODE></LI>
-<LI>If you have problems with fullscreen mode:
-  <UL>
-    <LI>Window manager type and version</LI>
-  </UL>
-</LI>
-<LI>If only the GUI is buggy:
-  <UL>
-    <LI>GTK version</LI>
-    <LI>GLIB version</LI>
-    <LI>libpng version</LI>
-    <LI>GUI situation in which the bug occurs</LI>
-  </UL>
-</LI>
+  </LI>
+  <LI>kernel version:<BR>
+      <CODE>uname -a</CODE></LI>
+  <LI>libc version:<BR>
+      <CODE>ls -l /lib/libc[.-]*</CODE></LI>
+  <LI>X version:<BR>
+      <CODE>X -version</CODE></LI>
+  <LI>gcc and ld versions:<BR>
+      <CODE>gcc -v<BR>
+      ld -v</CODE></LI>
+  <LI>binutils version:<BR>
+      <CODE>as --version</CODE></LI>
+  <LI>If you have problems with fullscreen mode:
+    <UL>
+      <LI>Window manager type and version</LI>
+    </UL>
+  </LI>
+  <LI>If only the GUI is buggy:
+    <UL>
+      <LI>GTK version</LI>
+      <LI>GLIB version</LI>
+      <LI>libpng version</LI>
+      <LI>GUI situation in which the bug occurs</LI>
+    </UL>
+  </LI>
 </UL>
 
 <P><B>Hardware &amp; drivers</B></P>
 
 <UL>
-<LI>CPU info (this works on Linux only):<BR>
+  <LI>CPU info (this works on Linux only):<BR>
     <CODE>cat /proc/cpuinfo</CODE></LI>
-<LI>Video card manufacturer and model, e.g.:
+  <LI>Video card manufacturer and model, e.g.:
     <UL>
-        <LI>ASUS V3800U chip: nVidia TNT2 Ultra pro 32MB SDRAM</LI>
-        <LI>Matrox G400 DH 32MB SGRAM</LI>
+      <LI>ASUS V3800U chip: nVidia TNT2 Ultra pro 32MB SDRAM</LI>
+      <LI>Matrox G400 DH 32MB SGRAM</LI>
     </UL>
-</LI>
-<LI>Video driver type &amp; version, e.g.:
+  </LI>
+  <LI>Video driver type &amp; version, e.g.:
     <UL>
-        <LI>X built-in driver</LI>
-        <LI>nVidia 0.9.623</LI>
-        <LI>Utah-GLX CVS 2001-02-17</LI>
-        <LI>DRI from X 4.0.3</LI>
+      <LI>X built-in driver</LI>
+      <LI>nVidia 0.9.623</LI>
+      <LI>Utah-GLX CVS 2001-02-17</LI>
+      <LI>DRI from X 4.0.3</LI>
     </UL>
-</LI>
-<LI>Sound card type &amp; driver, e.g.:
+  </LI>
+  <LI>Sound card type &amp; driver, e.g.:
     <UL>
-        <LI>Creative SBLive! Gold with OSS driver from oss.creative.com</LI>
-        <LI>Creative SB16 with kernel OSS drivers</LI>
-        <LI>GUS PnP with ALSA OSS emulation</LI>
+      <LI>Creative SBLive! Gold with OSS driver from oss.creative.com</LI>
+      <LI>Creative SB16 with kernel OSS drivers</LI>
+      <LI>GUS PnP with ALSA OSS emulation</LI>
     </UL>
-</LI>
-<LI>If in doubt include <CODE>lspci -vv</CODE> output on Linux systems.</LI>
+  </LI>
+  <LI>If in doubt include <CODE>lspci -vv</CODE> output on Linux systems.</LI>
 </UL>
 
 <P><B>For compilation problems/errors</B></P>
@@ -161,77 +161,85 @@
 of <B>MPlayer</B> at verbosity level 1.<BR> 
 Usually the first 1-5 MB of a file are enough to reproduce the problem,
 but to be sure we ask you to:
+
 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dd if=yourfile of=smallfile bs=1024k count=5</CODE></P>
 
 <P>It will take the  first five megabytes of <STRONG>'your-file'</STRONG> and
-write it to <STRONG>'small-file'</STRONG>.<BR>
-Then try again on this small file and if the bug still shows up 
-your sample is sufficient for us.<BR>
-Please <STRONG>do not ever</STRONG> send such files via mail! Upload it,
-and send only the path/filename of the file on the FTP-server.<BR>
-If the file is accessible on the net, then sending the
-<STRONG>exact</STRONG> URL is sufficient.</P>
+  write it to <STRONG>'small-file'</STRONG>.<BR>
+  Then try again on this small file and if the bug still shows up 
+  your sample is sufficient for us.<BR>
+  Please <STRONG>do not ever</STRONG> send such files via mail! Upload it,
+  and send only the path/filename of the file on the FTP-server.<BR>
+  If the file is accessible on the net, then sending the
+  <STRONG>exact</STRONG> URL is sufficient.</P>
 
 <P><B>For crashes</B></P>
 
 <P>If you have a core dump of the crash continue reading the next paragraph,
-otherwise skip it.</P>
+  otherwise skip it.</P>
 
 <P><B>How to extract meaningful information from a core dump</B></P>
 
 <P>Please create following command file:</P>
 
 <P><CODE>disass $eip-32 $eip+32<BR>
-printf "eax=%08lX\n",$eax<BR>
-printf "ebx=%08lX\n",$ebx<BR>
-printf "ecx=%08lX\n",$ecx<BR>
-printf "edx=%08lX\n",$edx<BR>
-printf "esp=%08lX\n",$esp<BR>
-printf "ebp=%08lX\n",$ebp<BR>
-printf "edi=%08lX\n",$edi<BR>
-printf "esi=%08lX\n",$esi<BR>
-</CODE></P>
+  printf "eax=%08lX\n",$eax<BR>
+  printf "ebx=%08lX\n",$ebx<BR>
+  printf "ecx=%08lX\n",$ecx<BR>
+  printf "edx=%08lX\n",$edx<BR>
+  printf "esp=%08lX\n",$esp<BR>
+  printf "ebp=%08lX\n",$ebp<BR>
+  printf "edi=%08lX\n",$edi<BR>
+  printf "esi=%08lX\n",$esi<BR>
+  </CODE></P>
 
 <P>Then simply execute the following on your command line:</P>
+
 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>gdb mplayer --core=core -batch --command=command_file &gt; mplayer.bug</CODE></P>
 
 <P><B>How to conserve information about a reproducible crash</B></P>
+
 <P>Recompile <B>MPlayer</B> with debugging code enabled:</P>
+
 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;./configure --enable-debug=3<BR>
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;make</CODE></P>
+  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;make</CODE></P>
+
 and then run <B>MPlayer</B> within gdb using:
 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;gdb mplayer</CODE></P>
 
 <P>You are now within gdb. Type:</P>
+
 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;run -v [options-to-mplayer] filename</code></P>
+
 and reproduce your crash. As soon as you did it, gdb will
 return you to the command line prompt where you have to enter
+
 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;bt<BR>
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;disass $eip-32 $eip+32</CODE></P>
+  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;disass $eip-32 $eip+32</CODE></P>
+
 and send the complete output to us.
 
 <P><B>General note</B></P>
 
 <P>If something is quite big (logs for instance) then it is better to upload
-it to the FTP server in a compressed format (gzip and bzip preferred) and
-include only the path and filename in your bug report.</P>
+  it to the FTP server in a compressed format (gzip and bzip preferred) and
+  include only the path and filename in your bug report.</P>
 
 <P><B>I know what I am doing...</B></P>
 
 <P>If you created a proper bug report following the steps above and you are
-confident it is a bug in <B>MPlayer</B>, not a compiler problem or broken file,
-you have already read the documentation and you could not find a solution,
-your sound drivers are OK, then you might want to subscribe to the
-mplayer-advusers list and send your bug report there to get a better and
-faster answer.<BR><BR> 
-Please be advised that if you post newbie questions or questions answered
-in the manual there, you will be ignored or flamed instead of getting an
-appropriate answer.<BR>
-So do not flame us and  subscribe to -advusers only if you really know
-what you are doing and feel like being an advanced <B>MPlayer</B> user or
-developer.  If you meet these criteria it should not be difficult to find
-out how to subscribe...
-</P>
+  confident it is a bug in <B>MPlayer</B>, not a compiler problem or broken
+  file, you have already read the documentation and you could not find a
+  solution, your sound drivers are OK, then you might want to subscribe to the
+  mplayer-advusers list and send your bug report there to get a better and
+  faster answer.<BR><BR> 
+  Please be advised that if you post newbie questions or questions answered
+  in the manual there, you will be ignored or flamed instead of getting an
+  appropriate answer.<BR>
+  So do not flame us and  subscribe to -advusers only if you really know
+  what you are doing and feel like being an advanced <B>MPlayer</B> user or
+  developer.  If you meet these criteria it should not be difficult to find
+  out how to subscribe...</P>
 
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