Test Day:2011-09-06 Nouveau

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DATE	TIME	WHERE
Tue Sep 06, 2011	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 16, 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)

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 16, 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
i686	1d235e29f013db7d85277086a3eb11be81a8b690ddcd16c5f46d2dfbcdd12b83
x86_64	bdb309a42f99ba1c6221c85912960e4aebe82596fdd2d9027a41f16275d6fa74

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

• QA:Testcase_nouveau_basic
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_gnome3 ALL GeForce cards should support Shell: if you get fallback mode, please report the test as a warn and file a bug
• 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

Main results

User	Smolt Profile	Basic test	GNOME 3 start	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	N/A	fail	warn
bodhi.zazen	HW (Laptop)	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass File:Renderchecklog.gz	pass	fail	warn	N/A	N/A
bodhi.zazen	HW (Desktop)	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn Rotate does not work with dual monitors, works fine if I disable the secondary monitor	pass	warn screenshotFile:Renderlog2.gz	pass	fail	warn	N/A	pass
jmoskovc	HW	pass	fail I guess it's because missing GLX support	pass	pass	fail no reaction when trying to apply changes in control centre	pass	warn still running, will update later	fail Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0"	pass	pass	pass	fail
rnovacek	HW	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass			pass	fail No switching dialog appears, only display fades out and in.	warn	pass	fail
tflink	HW	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress
kparal	nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1)	pass	pass	pass	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none

Extended 3D tests

User	Smolt Profile	Pymol	Avogadro	OpenArena	Tux Racer	mesa-demos	Comments
Example user	HW	pass	pass	N/A	fail	warn
bodhi.zazen	HW (Laptop)	pass	pass	N/A	N/A	pass
bodhi.zazen	HW (Desktop)	pass	pass	N/A	N/A	pass
User	Smolt Profile	Pymol	Avogadro	OpenArena	Tux Racer	mesa-demos	Comments