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Thu March 26, 2009 From 12:00 to 00:00 UTC (7am -> 7pm ET) #fedora-qa)

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on the proposed new default driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, Nouveau:

If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing of Noveau is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test Nouveau with your graphics card and provide feedback.

Who's available

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

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." 
  • Rawhide (tips on installing Rawhide below), or the live CD available for this test day (again see below).
  • FAS Account - you can create an account in 3 minutes if you don't have one
  • Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions
  • Make sure to back up your existing xorg.conf file, if you have one, so you can recover if the nouveau driver causes you trouble

How to test?

Update your machine

See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide. Or:

Live Image

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

Architecture MD5SUM
i386 551ca2636525dbf5a3530115cde634ee
x86_64 b0f87f300b83bf4baee86819fae1eaed


Latest syslinux package?
Creating a LiveUSB of this rawhide image requires the latest version of syslinux, which is currently available in Rawhide and in the latest Windows liveusb-creator. Users of F10 and below can upgrade to the latest syslinux package using
yum --enablerepo=rawhide update syslinux
.

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

Multihead test case:

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

Report your results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from Adam Williamson 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, if your system worked correctly, simply enter the word PASS. If you had trouble, enter the word FAIL, as a link to the bug report for the failure. 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

User Smolt Profile Basic test XVideo test X restart test KMS test Multihead test Rendercheck test Comments
Adam Williamson HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 9400 GT (0641)
Adam Williamson 2 HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A 6200 (0221)
Michal Nowak HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS Quadro NVS 285 (0165)
Gene Stuckey HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A GeForce 8400 GS (06e4)
Gene Stuckey 2 HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce FX Go5200 64M (0324)
Gene Stuckey 3 HW PASS PASS FAIL PASS FAIL N/A Quadro NVS 135M (042b)
Mike Chambers HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (03d0)
Scott Dodson HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce 7950 GT (0295)
Paul W. Frields HW PASS FAIL FAIL PASS N/A 8400M GS (0427)
Brian Pepple HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce FX 5200 (0322)
James Laska HW PASS N/A NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1)
James Laska HW N/A Quadro FX 570 (rev a1)
David Nalley HW PASS PASS PASS N/A FAIL N/A nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 570M (rev a1)
Jan ONDREJ (SAL) 2 HW PASS PASS PASS N/A FAIL N/A GeForce 7600 GS
Tom Callaway HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce 7950 GT (0295)
Christoph Höger HW PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A GeForce 8600 GTS
Ted Roche HW PASS PASS FAIL PASS N/A N/A Quadro NVS 140M
Lukas Märdian HW PASS N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Quadro NVS 110M / GeForce Go 7300 (01d7)
Craig Robson HW PASS FAIL FAIL PASS N/A N/A Quadro FX 370 (040a)
David Nalley HW PASS N/A nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev a2)
Graeme Hilton HW PASS PASS FAIL N/A N/A N/A GeForce 2 FX5200 Go
Mario Chacon HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL N/A N/A GeForce NX7950 GT
Stewart Adam HW PASS FAIL [1] [2] FAIL FAIL FAIL N/A GeForce 8600M GT (1031)
Juan Pablo Giménez HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A GeForce 7150M (rev a2)
Liam HW PASS FAIL PASS PASS N/A N/A Quadro NVS 140M
AlexH HW PASS PASS FAIL FAIL OUTPUT Quadro NVS 135M (rev a1)
Marco Hartgring HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS N/A GeForce Go 7600 (0398)
Gireesh Sreekantan HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]
Jake Shipton HW PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A GeForce 9200M GS [10de:06e8] (rev a1)
Marco Somoza HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A GeForce 8600 GT
Stephen Gallagher HW FAIL PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A Dual GeForce 9600GT. Basic test failed but was able to correct by manually editing xorg.conf
Michal Hlavinka HW FAIL PASS FAIL N/A N/A N/A GeForce Go 7600 [10de:0398] (rev a1)
Michal Hlavinka HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Quadro NVS 290 [10de:042f] (rev a1)
isydor HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce 7800 GT (10de:0092 rev a1)
Romualdas Mincevicius HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 [10de:03d0] (rev a2)

Encountered bug 492316 when cursor on top-left screen edge disappears, but the new nouveau driver packages from the bug thread fixes that.

Robert M. Albrecht [none] PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL N/A nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 135M (rev a1)
Przemysław Palacz HW PASS FAIL FAIL PASS N/A N/A Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT rev. 3.0, restarting X fails but after adding kernel parameter nouveau.modeset=1 it works ok.
Julian Batliner HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL N/A N/A XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+
Troels Kofoed Jacobsen HW PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A GeForce 8600 GT
Jared K. Smith [3] PASS PASS FAIL FAIL N/A MacBook Pro 3,1 - GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
Julian Sikorski HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce Go 7600, hit bug 492316
John Armitage HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A GeForce 7050 [10de:07e3] (rev a2)
Robert Williams HW FAIL N/A N/A PASS N/A N/A GeForce 8200M G [10de:0845] (rev a2)
Andreas Petzold HW PASS FAIL PASS N/A FAIL N/A Quadro NVS 140M
Piotr Kempa HW PASS FAIL PASS PASS FAIL N/A Quadro NVS 140M
Vladislav Shabanov HW PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A results GeForce 6600
Yuri Timofeev HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A [GeForce 9600 GT] [10de:0622]. Boot from live CD. Basic test failed but my display goto "Power saving mode"
Bill Nottingham N/A FAIL PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A NV34GL [Quadro FX 500/600 PCI] [10de:032b] - DVI fails to set up correctly. VGA works, used for subsequent tests.
Walter Francis HW PASS PASS FAIL FAIL PASS N/A Quadro FX 2700M on Dell M6400. KMS: Screen res changed late in the boot and it didn't finish from there. Multihead: Clone was fine, could not make secondary extended, and could not adjust clone location.