Test Day:2014-08-28 Gnome 3.14: Difference between revisions

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Fedora Test Days

Gnome 3.14

Date	2014-08-21
Time	all day

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IRC	#fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list	test

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If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on new features in Gnome 3.14.

Who's available

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

Development - TBD
Quality Assurance - Vladimír Beneš (vbenes)

Prerequisite for Test Day

bootable USB key or CD/DVD disk with latest Fedora 21 live image or:
machine or VM with updated Fedora 21

An updated Fedora F19 pre-release or a Test Day #Live image

Known issues

How to test?

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora 21, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. Or:

Live image

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

Architecture	SHA256SUM
x86_64	bda651c2ddba6102cc04197b8345beef9d0e128aeb8df0074857f3a630817829
i686	191a9fd5ada686909429b6dbfcaf4bfc882c442ec3d391385dd3d8fa5cc69cc9

Installation not supported
The Test Day live image contains the Fedora installer, but Fedora 19 is in a very early (pre-Alpha!) state right now, so installing it is strongly discouraged on anything but a disposable test system. Additionally, testing suggests installation is broken on these particular Test Day images.

Software Rendering

Computers with obsolete graphics with buggy 3D drivers and VM hypervisors like KVM or VirtualBox don't have complete 3D support yet. But you can run Gnome Shell using software rendering (llvmpipe driver) on the CPU.

You may need to uninstall your GPU driver by running yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for example to force enable llvmpipe driver. You will need to restart X by logging out and back in for this to take effect.
Of lesser interest, but still worth checking, is whether GPUs already on the hardware blacklist work with their native driver instead. This can be checked by commenting out the appropriate entry from /usr/share/gnome-session/hardware-compatibility and logging out and back in to Gnome.

Check if Xorg uses software rendering, run: glxinfo and check output for string: OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300). Or you can check if you are using software rendering in the Control Center -> Details (llvmpipe)

Test Cases

* Test case 1
* test case 2
* etc
* etc

@@ Line 13: / Line 13: @@
 == What to test? ==
-  * Feature 1
+ Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on new features in Gnome 3.14.
-  * Feature 2
-  * Feature 3
+== Who's available ==
+The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
+* Development - TBD
+* Quality Assurance - [[User:Vbenes|Vladimír Beneš]] (vbenes)
+== Prerequisite for Test Day ==
+* bootable USB key or CD/DVD disk with latest Fedora 21 live image or:
+* machine or VM with updated Fedora 21
+* An updated [http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Fedora F19 pre-release] or a Test Day [[#Live image]]
+== Known issues ==
+== How to test? ==
+=== '''Update your machine''' ===
+If you're running Fedora 21, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. Or:
+=== '''Live image''' ===
+Optionally, you may download a non-destructive live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at [[FedoraLiveCD]].
+{|
+! Architecture !! SHA256SUM
+|-
+| [http://fedorapeople.org/groups/qa/20130320-gnome/20130320-gnome-x86_64.iso x86_64] || bda651c2ddba6102cc04197b8345beef9d0e128aeb8df0074857f3a630817829
+|-
+| [http://fedorapeople.org/groups/qa/20130320-gnome/20130320-gnome-i686.iso i686] || 191a9fd5ada686909429b6dbfcaf4bfc882c442ec3d391385dd3d8fa5cc69cc9
+|}
+{{admon/warning | Installation not supported | The Test Day live image contains the Fedora installer, but Fedora 19 is in a very early (pre-Alpha!) state right now, so installing it is strongly discouraged on anything but a disposable test system. Additionally, testing suggests installation is broken on these particular Test Day images.}}
+=== Software Rendering ===
+Computers with obsolete graphics with buggy 3D drivers and VM hypervisors like KVM or VirtualBox don't have complete 3D support yet. But you can run Gnome Shell using software rendering (llvmpipe driver) on the CPU.
+* You may need to uninstall your GPU driver by running {{command|yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau}} for example to force enable llvmpipe driver. You will need to restart X by logging out and back in for this to take effect.
+* Of lesser interest, but still worth checking, is whether GPUs already on the hardware blacklist work with their native driver instead.  This can be checked by commenting out the appropriate entry from <code>/usr/share/gnome-session/hardware-compatibility</code> and logging out and back in to Gnome.
+{{admon/important | Check if Xorg uses software rendering, run: <code>glxinfo</code> and check output for string: <code>OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)</code>.
+Or you can check if you are using software rendering in the Control Center -> Details (llvmpipe)}}
+== Test Cases ==
+  * Test case 1
+  * test case 2
+  * etc
+ * etc

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