- The audio driver tests (test_ossaudiodev.py and
test_linuxaudiodev.py) are no longer run by default. This is
because they don't always work, depending on your hardware and
software. To run these tests, you must use an invocation like
./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -u audio test_ossaudiodev
diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index c60e824..00847fc 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -591,8 +591,10 @@
test_gl
test_imgfile
test_largefile
+ test_linuxaudiodev
test_nis
test_ntpath
+ test_ossaudiodev
test_socketserver
test_sunaudiodev
test_unicode_file
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_linuxaudiodev.py b/Lib/test/test_linuxaudiodev.py
index 9f44629..1a11e8f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_linuxaudiodev.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_linuxaudiodev.py
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+from test import test_support
+test_support.requires('audio')
+
from test.test_support import verbose, findfile, TestFailed, TestSkipped
import errno
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ossaudiodev.py b/Lib/test/test_ossaudiodev.py
index ed8f770..51fdab2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ossaudiodev.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ossaudiodev.py
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+from test import test_support
+test_support.requires('audio')
+
from test.test_support import verbose, findfile, TestFailed, TestSkipped
import errno
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 005a768..ee7f2cb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -284,6 +284,12 @@
Build
-----
+- The audio driver tests (test_ossaudiodev.py and
+ test_linuxaudiodev.py) are no longer run by default. This is
+ because they don't always work, depending on your hardware and
+ software. To run these tests, you must use an invocation like
+ ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -u audio test_ossaudiodev
+
- On systems which build using the configure script, compiler flags which
used to be lumped together using the OPT flag have been split into two
groups, OPT and BASECFLAGS. OPT is meant to carry just optimization- and