Test Day:2010-09-28 Nouveau

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DATE	TIME	WHERE
Tue Sep 28, 2010	ALL DAY	#fedora-test-day)

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 14, please wait for the next Nouveau test day.

What to test?

Today's installment of 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
• 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

If you're running Fedora 42, 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.

Broken images
Please do not use the x86-64 image with the sha256sum 067f1c5a5f53ff1bc2a8d3c6f484e7b99c00f4f4c350c1ba1ae6ac177a07b62b which was available on this page until recently. It is broken. We apologize for the inconvenience. For now, please test using the i686 image.

Architecture	SHA256SUM
i686	8443f115fd7d7fe1f25b29eb8ea167f1057db8e70149ce27fa6533a412094ee6

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

• QA:Testcase_nouveau_basic
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_xvideo
• 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 (experimental, expected to fail in some cases, don't be surprised!) (NOTE: if using the first custom live image build, run yum install compiz-gnome before doing this test)
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_fastuserswitch
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_vtswitch
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_suspend
• QA:Testcase_nouveau_compositing_manager

Multihead test case:

• QA:Testcase_nouveau_multihead

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 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, if your system worked correctly, simply enter the word PASS. If you had trouble, enter the word FAIL, with a footnote indicator, and put a link to the bug report in the comments column (as in the example 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

User	Smolt Profile	Basic test	XVideo	X restart	Rendercheck	OpenGL	Fast User Switching	VT switching	Suspend / Resume	Compositing	Multihead	Comments
Sample user	HW	PASS	FAIL	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	GeForce
Greg Wildman	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS File:Gregw renderchecklog.gz	PASS	PASS	PASS	FAIL (laptop resumed to console only and hung. Capslock and Scrolllock both flashing together.)	PASS	FAIL	2x GeForce 8700M GT [10de:0409] (rev a1)
Jens Petersen	HW	PASS	FAIL "X Window System (X11/ XShm/ Xv): Could not initialise Xv output"	FAIL (black screen on logout)	File:Petersen renderchecklog.gz	N/A "Desktop effects require hardware 3D support."	PASS	FAIL (black console screen)	FAIL (resumes with desktop wrapping horizontally round screen)	PASS	N/A	NV44 q383-0 (Quadro NVS 285 rev a1)
jlaska	HW	pass	pass	pass	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	pass	pass	inprogress	warn	nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] (rev b1)
madko	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS File:Madko Renderchecklog.gz	PASS	PASS	PASS	FAIL (backlight is too dark, can't change it anymore after resume)	PASS	PASS	nVidia Corporation G96M [Quadro FX 770M] (rev a1)
Alexei Panov	HW	PASS	Partial (ripple effect video image on dynamic scenes)	PASS	PASS File:Renderchecklogsams-r70a006.gz	PASS (need install compiz-gnome!)	PASS	PASS	FAIL ( freeze on resume)	PASS	N/A	nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] (laptop Samsung R70/A006)
Juhamatti Niemelä	HW	FAIL	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	GeForce 8400 GS, single display
wfp5p	HW	FAIL	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	GeForce 9500 GT, dual display
mcloaked	HW	PASS	PASS		PASS File:Renderchecklog-mcloaked.gz						N/A	nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro FX 360M] [10de:042d] (rev a1)
Orion Poplawski	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS File:Orion-renderchecklog.log	PASS - glxgears runs, KDE won't enable effects	N/A	PASS	PASS	N/A	N/A	G98 [Quadro NVS 295] (rev a1)
Michael S. Tiskrin	HW	pass	pass	pass	pass File:Mst-Renderchecklog.gz	pass glxgears reports: nv50_screen_get_param:162 - Unknown PIPE_CAP 11 but works fine then	pass	pass	n/a	pass	n/a	G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1) I get a lot of warnings like this: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - Using session bus. but I think this is gnome not nouveau related.
Ville Skyttä	inprogress	pass	pass	inprogress	pass File:Scop-renderchecklog.gz	N/A	inprogress	pass	fail	pass	N/A	nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150] (rev a2)
intgr	HW	pass	pass	inprogress	File:Renderchecklog-intgr.gz	pass	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 135M]
Erik Auerswald	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	PASS [1]	PASS (glxgears + compiz)	PASS	N/A (failed, see comments)	PASS	PASS	N/A	GeForce 6600 GT AGP 128MB, i686 LiveCD, never tried suspend before (did not work now), one monitor -> no multihead test
Al Thomas	HW	FAIL	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	NV1f Chipset. nForce 2 GeForce 4 MX Integrated GPU
Nicolas Barriga		pass	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	Comments
User	Smolt Profile	Basic test	XVideo	X restart	Rendercheck	OpenGL	Fast User Switching	VT switching	Suspend/Resume	Compositing	Multihead	Comments