Best way to go about reporting a bug?

[Young Chris]

I'd like to report a bug on bugzilla regarding Wine's handing of the shaders on cars in Need for Speed: Carbon (thanks for getting this working with 1.2-RC2, by the way) I'm not sure how exactly to go about doing this in the best way, to give the WINE developers the most useful information.

What's the best way of doing this, as I am new to WINE bug reporting?

Thanks for your time,
Chris.

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 01:38, Young Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

I'd like to report a bug on bugzilla regarding Wine's handing of the shaders on cars in Need for Speed: Carbon (thanks for getting this working with 1.2-RC2, by the way) I'm not sure how exactly to go about doing this in the best way, to give the WINE developers the most useful information.

What's the best way of doing this, as I am new to WINE bug reporting?

Basically,

- Check the AppDB (http://appdb.winehq.org/)... sometimes you can find
workarounds there, and the general support status
- Read the FAQ (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ), especially the
troubleshooting section before submitting
- http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation and http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo
- (For graphics stuff) Check your video drivers (type, version, ...) :
binary NVIDIA drivers usually work OK, for other cards/drivers...
well... YMMV. You might also want to disable desktop special effects
(e.g. from Compiz)
- Check if the same/similar bug was already reported

If you decide to report a bug, try to provide as many (relevant) info
as possible: distribution, kernel, video drivers in use, maybe
soundcard for sound problems, ...

Thanks for your time,
Chris.

Frédéric