Test Day:2012-09-25 Nouveau

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DATE	TIME	WHERE
Tue Sep 25, 2012	ALL DAY	#fedora-test-day (webirc)

Arriving after the date above?
If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing of Nouveau is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test Nouveau with your graphics card and provide feedback. If you are visiting after the release of Fedora 18, please wait for the next Nouveau test day.

What to test?

Today's Fedora Test Day will focus on the Nouveau graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics cards.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion.

• Development - Ben Skeggs (IRC: darktama)
• Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson (IRC: adamw), Martin Holec (Martix)

What's needed to test

• An NVIDIA graphics adapter. To confirm whether you have supporting hardware, run the following command:

  /sbin/lspci -d 10de: | grep -iq VGA && echo "Join Nouveau Fedora Test Day" || echo "No nVidia graphics hardware found." 

• An updated Fedora 42 pre-release, or the special live image (see below)
• Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions.

How to test?

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora 18, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. Or you can use a live image:

Live image

Optionally, you may download a non-destructive Fedora 42 live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Architecture	SHA256SUM
x86_64	8da43d383efbded1aee7f3d834b6192d2ccd9cd88cbc89975faff37982d33436
i686	90cd6e120dbfd46223ed0db0c6d75a7a6646d7dc2819882fd8f6e3c79747b93e

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

• QA:Testcase_nouveau_basic
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_gnome3 ALL GeForce cards except very old ones should support Shell: if you get fallback mode, please report the test as a warn and file a bug
• QA:Testcase KDE4 Desktop Effects
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_dpms
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_xv
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_rotate
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_restartx
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_rendercheck (can take some time to complete, from 10 minutes to an hour or two)
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_glx
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_fastuserswitch
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_vt
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_suspend

Multihead test case:

• QA:Testcase_nouveau_multihead

You will need two or more monitors to perform the multihead test.

Optional extended OpenGL test cases (some of these will require you to at least move around in games):

• QA:Testcase_nouveau_3D_pymol
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_3D_avogadro
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_3D_openarena
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_3D_tuxracer
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_3D_mesa-demos

These will provide more detailed testing of 3D functionality. Please file bugs for any failures you find if running these tests.

Report your results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component xorg-x11-drv-nouveau. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Follow the instructions on this page to ensure you include sufficient information in the report. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from Sample user as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to your Smolt hardware profile (see above for a link with instructions on submitting your hardware profile to Smolt). For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line. If you could not perform one test (for example, you cannot perform the more advanced tests because the basic one fails, or you cannot perform the multihead test as you have only one display), enter the word N/A. In the comments column, you can enter the model name and PCI device ID (vendor ID is usually 10DE) of your card, if you know it - you can usually find this information in the output of the command lspci -nn.

Results

Long notes
Please try to avoid leaving long comments in the table, it makes it difficult to read. If you need to explain an issue in detail, please file a bug, and link to the bug.

Main results

User	Smolt Profile	Basic test	GNOME 3 start	KDE 4 effects	DPMS	XVideo	Rotation	X restart	Render check	GLX	User switch	VT switch	Suspend	Multihead	Comments
Example user	HW	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	N/A	fail	warn
kbidarka	HW	pass	pass	N/A	pass	fail						N/A
Aalam	[]	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	N/A	pass	N/A
red	HW	pass	pass	N/A	pass	pass	pass
Jaroslav Škarvada	TBD	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress
kparal	HW	pass	pass	N/A	pass	pass	pass	fail 857662
heksita	HW	pass	pass	N/A	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass renderchecklog	pass	warn	pass	pass	N/A	X restart: not able to connect to a wireless network
Kecskebak	HW	pass	pass	N/A	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	inprogress		N/A
Marek Zdunek	Lenovo Y530	pass	pass	N/A	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass [1]	pass	N/A	pass	pass	N/A
Alexei Panov	GTX560	pass	N/A	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass renderchecklog	pass	N/A	pass	pass	N/A	Forgot make smolt profile artifacts
Alexei Panov	HW	pass	pass	N/A	pass	pass	pass	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	N/A
User	Smolt Profile	Basic test	GNOME 3 start	KDE 4 effects	DPMS	XVideo	Rotation	X restart	Render check	GLX	User switch	VT switch	Suspend	Multihead	Comments

Extended 3D tests

User	Smolt Profile	Pymol	Avogadro	OpenArena	Tux Racer	mesa-demos	Comments
Example user	HW	pass	pass	N/A	fail	warn
red	HW	fail	pass	pass	warn	pass
Alexei Panov	GTX560	pass	pass	pass	warn	pass	Pymol very slow and other tests too.
User	Smolt Profile	Pymol	Avogadro	OpenArena	Tux Racer	mesa-demos	Comments