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-rwxr-xr-xLib/test/regrtest.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_linuxaudiodev.py3
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_ossaudiodev.py3
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS6
4 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index c60e824208..00847fcf8c 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -591,8 +591,10 @@ _expectations = {
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 9f44629dfc..1a11e8f038 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 ed8f77070a..51fdab2bcf 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 005a7686f2..ee7f2cb059 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -284,6 +284,12 @@ Tools/Demos
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