2009-09-10 Nouveau

DATE	TIME	WHERE
Thu Sep 10, 2009	ALL DAY	#fedora-test-day)

What to test?

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

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.

Who's available

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

Development - Ben Skeggs
Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson

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).
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
i686	4e09b55dcf898038d6959aa5893b3d35
x86_64	6b1b617a7dd1ef42ee0cbb9fcd14a162

Live USB label bug
If you put the image on a USB stick, boot will likely fail with the message No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever. In this case, use the command /sbin/dosfslabel (if your USB stick is FAT32-formatted) or /sbin/e2label (ext2/3/4-formatted) to find the label for the USB stick. When booting, hit tab twice at the Fedora boot screen to edit the kernel boot parameters, and change the root= section to read root=live:LABEL=(label), where (label) is the label you found. In some cases, you may simply need to use the label provided by udev, so if your key normally mounts as /media/KINGSTON, for example, use KINGSTON as the label.

If you have a slightly older Test Day Live image
This tip may be useful if you have a very recent Live image from a previous test day.

If you are a Fedora account holder, you can use rsync over SSH to update your existing ISO image in just a few minutes. First, cd to the directory containing your existing ISO image file. Then change its file name to testday-20090909-(arch).iso and run this command:

rsync -Pv fedorapeople.org:/home/fedora/adamwill/public_html/20090909_test_day_images/testday-20090909-(arch).iso .

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

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 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, 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 test	X restart test	Multihead test	Rendercheck test	Fast User Switching	VT switching	Suspend/Resume	Comments
Adam Williamson	HW	FAIL ^[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	9400 GT (0641) ↑ See RHBZ #XXXXXX
Michal Nowak	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	N/A	PASS	PASSS ^[1]	N/A	Quadro NVS 285 (0165) ↑ RHBZ #522144
Martin Decky	HW	FAIL ^[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3) [10de:0174] on Apple iMac G4 ↑ RHBZ #505161
Stefan Becker	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	FAIL ^[1]	(PASS) ^[2]	(PASS) ^[3]	PASS	FAIL ^[4]	nVidia Corporation Device (9800M GTS) [10de:062c] ↑ RHBZ #522587 ↑ extremely slow, test aborted after 1 hour ↑ RHBZ #522197 ↑ RHBZ #522557
pfps	HW	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass [2]	Pass	Pass	N/A (no hardware support)	nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
Stéphane Démurget	HW	FAIL ^[1]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	NV34M [GeForce Go 5200] (rev a1) ↑ See RHBZ #XXXXXX
Nightcast2000	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	PASS	FAIL	N/A	TBD	01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] [10de:0045] (rev a1)
Lukas Maerdian	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	PASS File:Renderchecklog.gz Slyon	PASS	PASS	TBD	Quadro NVS 110M / GeForce Go 7300 (01d7)
TomasM	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	FAIL	PASS renderchecklog.gz	FAIL ^[1]	PASS	PASS	NV43 / GeForce Go 6600 (rev a2) ↑ See RHBZ #522318
Chaosbringer	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	PASS File:Renderchecklog.gz Chaosbringer	N/A	PASS	N/A	nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1))
Liam	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	PASS File:Liam Renderchecklog.gz	PASS	PASS	PASS	nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1)
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov	HW	FAIL ^[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation Device 0873 [GeForce G 102M] (rev b1) ↑ RHBZ #522361
Andrey Smirnov	HW	PASS	PASS	N/A	N/A	PASS File:Renderchecklog.gz ndreys	FAIL ^[1]	PASS	N/A	nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:0392] (rev a1) ↑ See RHBZ #522398
A.C.Heron	HW	FAIL	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)
mark preston	Tosihba Tecra M10 laptop	PASS	PASS	PASS	TBD	PASS 1hr log	FAIL ^[1]	PASS	PASS	nVidia Corporation [Quadro NVS 150M] (rev a1) ↑ See RHBZ #522398
Daniel J Blueman	Latitude E6400	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A ^[1]	PASS [3]	PASS	PASS	FAIL ^[2]	nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 160M (rev a1) ↑ Insufficient h/w to test ↑ RHBZ #522540
Tomas Pelka	Precision T5400	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A - no second LCD available	PASS [4]	PASS	PASS	FAIL - collecting more info	nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 290 (rev a1)
Ondrej Zary	HW	PASS	PASS					PASS		nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:02e1]
Olexander Shtepa	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	PASS File:Shtepa Renderchecklog.gz	FAIL ^[1]	PASS	FAIL	nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT (rev a1) [10de:0402] ↑ See RHBZ #522398
jlaska	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	PASS ^[1]	PASS	PASS		nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1) ↑ File:2009-09-10 - jlaska Renderchecklog.txt
Niels Haase	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	FAIL ^[1]	PASS ^[2]	PASS	PASS	PASS ^[3]	nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 160M [10de:06eb] (rev a1) ↑ RHBZ #497785 ↑ [1] ↑ suspend: OK, hibernate fails because of kernel problem, not nouveau's fault
Niels Haase	HW	FAIL ^[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation ION VGA [10de:087d] ↑ RHBZ #522601
Michael Ploujnikov	HW	PASS	FAIL ^[1]	PASS	FAIL	PASS Media:Renderchecklog-plouj.gz	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GTS [10de:0400] (rev a1) ↑ See RHBZ #522522
Dirk Götz	HW	PASS	PASS	PASS	N/A	PASS File:Renderchecklog dirk 20090910.gz	PASS	PASS	FAIL (perhaps because hardware doesnt support it, also fails with F11 and nvidia, no logs because of using livecd)	Colorful Geforce 7900GT
pb	HW	FAIL ^[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation GeForce 8300 [10de:0848] (rev a2) ↑ See RHBZ #522575
pb	HW	FAIL ^[1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation GeForce 9200MGS [10de:06e8] (rev a1) nVidia Corporation GeForce 9400M G [10de:0866] (rev b1) ↑ See RHBZ #522575
Misha Kiman	HW	PASS	N/A	N/A	N/A	File:Kiman Renderchecklog.gz	N/A	N/A	N/A	nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] [10de:0622] (rev a1)
User	Smolt Profile	Basic test	XVideo test	X restart test	Multihead test	Rendercheck test	Fast User Switching	VT switching	Suspend/Resume	Comments

[1] See RHBZ #XXXXXX

[2] RHBZ #522144

[3] RHBZ #505161

[4] RHBZ #522587

[5] xtremely slow, test aborted after 1 hour

[6] RHBZ #522197

[7] RHBZ #522557

[8] See RHBZ #XXXXXX

[9] See RHBZ #522318

[10] RHBZ #522361

[11] See RHBZ #522398

[12] See RHBZ #522398

[13] Insufficient h/w to test

[14] RHBZ #522540

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