DATE | TIME | WHERE |
2013-04-24 | ALL DAY | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
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 - Martin Holec (Martix) UTC 10:00-18:00, Adam Williamson (adamw) UTC 16:00-00:00
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 41 pre-release, or the special live image (see below)
How to test?
Update your machine
If you're running Fedora 19, 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 19 live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.
Architecture | SHA256SUM |
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x86_64 (750 MB) | 6c741f41647cc6a04eee0e5213f98350110e328738ae3e610905d6fa1bbe1314 |
x86_64 full (2.7GB, including games) | f01dc79959faeba6aa36851e03e241a9d64652f4f394f712eb8355578e4d689c |
i686 (750 MB) | 17a9bb6bf552228cf0f7f910113d7dc4daec769137f6d0e75eb0cf5134b753d5 |
i686 full (2.7GB, including games) | d5ece89cfe9a7e9aa70e0f59c1ad24d71c727f825d2974e92bdf229b1f98191b |
Configuration options
If 3D acceleration is disabled by default on your adapter but you want to test it (these results may be useful to the developers), you can pass the following parameter at boot time: nouveau.config=PGRAPH=1
. Similarly, if you want to forcibly enable power management for your adapter, pass the parameter nouveau.perflvl_wr=7777
. Please, though, if you use one or both of these parameters, note this in the comments on your results and in any bug reports you file.
Testing
Basic
Elementary functionality tests, which should pass on supported GPU.
- Boot
- Virtual Terminal
- X restart
- Rendercheck (can take some time to complete, from 10 minutes to an hour or two)
- GLX
- Mesa demos
- Suspend
Desktop
Basic desktop usage scenarios, which should pass on supported GPU.
- Gnome Shell
- KDE 4
- Screen rotation
- User switch
- Multihead You will need two or more monitors to perform the multihead test.
Video
Tests focused on different video playback acceleration features. Some older GPUs may not support VDPAU.
3D applications/Games
Following applications has been carefully selected to test and exploit various OpenGL features using different rendering engines. If one applications test fails, next may work. Working HW 3D acceleration is needed.
Please file bugs for any failures you find if running these tests. But remember, crashes, rendering issues and glitches bugreports are more important then performance issues. Use your common sense and your knowledge about your GPU limits before reporting performance issues.
Experimental
Some recommended test cases for people, who likes trying new technology (Wayland, OpenCL) or who are interested in particular scenarios, eg. Steam, Wine.
- Hybrid graphics You will need a laptop with two GPUs. Intel and ATI (PowerXpress) or Intel and nVidia (Optimus).
- Steam
- WebGL
- Wine - Install 'wine' and try to play your favorite game. Important: Always check if your game is supported, visit: http://appdb.winehq.org Lot of bugs are actually Wine bugs, not related to GPU drivers, so be careful
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 the model of your graphics adapter. 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
Basic
User | Graphics card | Boot | Virtual Terminal | X restart | Rendercheck | GLX | Mesa demos | Suspend | Comments |
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Example user | HD 3000 | ![]() |
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Presario r3445 | NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go 64M] (rev a3) | ![]() |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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konstantinjch | GTS 250 | ![]() |
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JPopelka | Quadro FX 370 | ![]() |
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N/A | ![]() |
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N/A | |
Petr Schindler | GeForce 7300 GT | ![]() |
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Jiri Koten | ThinkPad T430 NVIDIA 5400M (GF108M) [10de:0def] (rev a1) | ![]() |
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N/A | Used forced PM | |
Frantisek Zatloukal | GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a (rev a2) | ![]() |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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Darryl Pierce | GF108 [Quadro NVS 5400M] | ![]() |
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Aleš Svoboda | NVIDIA Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] (rev a2) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Failed when loading Gnome display manager.After a while the screen got garbled. | |
Andrew Prokhorenkov | NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1) | ![]() |
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royboy626 | G73 GeForce 7600 GT (rev a1) | ![]() |
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N/A |
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Gašper Sedej | G84 GF8600GT [10de:0402] (rev a1) | ![]() |
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Gašper Sedej | G92 GeForce GTS 250 [10de:0615] (rev a2) | ![]() |
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Vincent Douillet | NV86 8400 GS | ![]() |
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Marek Zukal | NV86 8400 GS | ![]() |
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Jimmy Kloss | NV44A 6200 (10de:0221) | ![]() |
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Jeff Bastian | Quadro FX 570 (NV84) | ![]() |
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Luya Tshimbalanga | Geforce GTX 460 v2 NVCE (GF114) | ![]() |
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alich | NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 660] (rev a1) | ![]() |
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User | Graphics card | Boot | Virtual Terminal | X restart | Rendercheck | GLX | Mesa demos | Suspend | Comments |
Desktop
User | Graphics card | Gnome Shell | KDE 4 | Screen rotation | User switch | Multihead | Comments |
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Example user | HD 3000 | ![]() |
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N/A | |||
Jpopelka | Quadro FX 370 | N/A | ![]() |
N/A | N/A | N/A | |
Petr Schindler | GeForce 7300 GT | ![]() |
N/A | ![]() |
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N/A | |
Jiri Koten | ThinkPad T430 NVIDIA 5400M (GF108M) [10de:0def] (rev a1) | ![]() |
N/A | N/A | ![]() |
Used forced PM | |
Andrew Prokhorenkov | NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1) | ![]() |
N/A | ![]() |
N/A | N/A | |
royboy626 | G73 GeForce 7600 GT (rev a1) | ![]() |
N/A | ![]() |
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Vincent Douillet | NV86 8400 GS | ![]() |
N/A | ![]() |
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N/A |
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Marek Zukal | NV86 8400 GS | [2] | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
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Jimmy Kloss | NV44A 6200 (10de:0221) | ![]() |
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N/A |
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Jeff Bastian | Quadro FX 570 (NV84) | ![]() |
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Gašper Sedej | G84 GF8600GT [10de:0402] (rev a1) | ![]() |
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N/A | |
Gašper Sedej | G92 GeForce GTS 250 [10de:0615] (rev a2) | ![]() |
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Luya Tshimbalanga | Geforce GTX 460 v2 NVCE (GF114) | ![]() |
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N/A | |
User | Graphics card | Gnome Shell | KDE 4 | Screen rotation | User switch | Multihead | Comments |
Video
User | Graphics card | XVideo | XVMC | VA-API | Comments |
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Example user | HD 3000 | ![]() |
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Petr Schindler | GeForce 7300 GT | N/A | N/A | ||
Andrew Prokhorenkov | NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1) | N/A | N/A | ||
Vincent Douillet | NV86 8400 GS | N/A | N/A | ||
royboy626 | G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1) | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
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Jimmy Kloss | NV44A 6200 (10de:0221) | N/A | N/A | ||
User | Graphics card | XVideo | XVMC | VA-API | Comments |
3D Applications/Games
User | Graphics card | PyMOL | Stellarium | SuperTuxKart | Xonotic | VDrift | 0 A.D. | Comments |
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Example user | HD 3000 | ![]() |
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Andrew Prokhorenkov | NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1) | ![]() |
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Jimmy Kloss | NV44A 6200 (10de:0221) | ![]() |
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Jeff Bastian | Quadro FX 570 (NV84) | ![]() |
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N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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Luya Tshimbalanga | Geforce GTX 460 v2 NVCE (GF114) | ![]() |
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Gašper Sedej | G92 GeForce GTS 250 [10de:0615] (rev a2) | ![]() |
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User | Graphics card | PyMOL | Stellarium | SuperTuxKart | Xonotic | VDrift | 0 A.D. | Comments |
Experimental
User | Graphics card | Hybrid graphics | Steam | WebGL | Wine | Comments |
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Example user | HD 3000 | ![]() |
N/A | |||
Andrew Prokhorenkov | NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] (rev a1) | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
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Jimmy Kloss | NV44A 6200 (10de:0221) | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
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Jeff Bastian | Quadro FX 570 (NV84) | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
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Luya Tshimbalanga | Geforce GTX 460 v2 NVCE (GF114) | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
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User | Graphics card | Hybrid graphics | Steam | WebGL | Wine | Comments |