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Tue Apr 13, 2010 ALL DAY #fedora-test-day)
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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 13, 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.

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. If you have any problems running the test, please also install these updated builds from Koji and re-test before reporting a failure:

  1. kernel
  2. mesa
  3. xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

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 494a2b235086f9f42cfd62eebef67b5158185c473fd0ebb8d3f8e8a34c160171
x86_64 fa1de3c207f000ba6212b39692395e2af71a8e7322aac5cb4a92989c24decb33

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

Multihead test case:

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 [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 9400 GT (0641)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #XXXXXX
Gene Stuckey HW PASS FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A PASS PASS N/A N/A GeForce 8400 GS (06e4)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #579897
Mat Booth HW PASS PASS N/A N/A Slow, but PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS Quadro NVS 290
James Brown HW PASS PASS N/A PASS N/A N/A N/A N/A PASS GeForce 7300 GS
Steven Ward HW FAIL[1] PASS PASS N/A FAIL[2] N/A N/A N/A N/A VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] [10de:0045] (rev a1)
  1. ↑ See http://pastebin.com/cY8DCkq2
  2. ↑ See http://pastebin.com/s33jLcKv
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon HW PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] PASS PASS PASS N/A nVidia Corporation GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (rev a2)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #581769
Alan Lam HW FAIL FAIL PASS N/A PASS FAIL FAIL N/A PASS nVidia Corporation Device 087d (rev b1) ION
liam HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1)
  1. ↑ failed booting to desktop on 04-11 liveCD
Rainer Koenig HW PASS N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation Quadro FX4800 PCIe x16
Rainer Koenig HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS450 PCIe x16 (EE) [drm] failed to open device (EE) No devices detected.
Daniel Eikeland HW PASS PASS PASS [renderchecklog] FAIL[1] FAIL[2] PASS N/A PASS nVidia Corporation G84M (Quadro NVS 140M) [10de:0429]

All tests performed with the Live CD

  1. ↑ See http://pastebin.com/r4ETMXDf
  2. ↑ See http://pastebin.com/caNtK3yQ
Paul W. Frields HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS[1] nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1)
  1. ↑ Erratic "tearing display" when X takes over from KMS, but fades smoothly into correct graphical display for login. No other problems noted throughout multihead testing.
Björn Persson HW FAIL [1] PASS¹² PASS (output) PASS¹² PASS¹² PASS² PASS¹² PASS¹² PASS¹² PASS² nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce Go 7900 GS] [10de:0298] (rev a1)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #581887

¹: runlevel 3 and startx
²: without "rhgb" in the kernel command line

Michael J Gruber HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1)
Tom Wroblewski HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS nVidia G92 [GeForce 9800 GT} [10de:0614] (rev a2)
Rares Aioanei HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS)
Jared Smith HW PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS FAIL (locked up after switching back to first user) N/A PASS PASS N/A nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] (rev a1) on an Apple MacBook Pro 3,1
David Hall HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] [10de:0402] (rev a1)
Paul Lange HW PASS PASS N/A N/A PASS N/A N/A N/A N/A PASS nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] [10de:0649] (rev a1)
Dan Horák HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS N/A nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT (rev a1) [10de:0640]
Radek Bíba HW PASS PASS PASS PASS See RHBZ # 581945 - ugly PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300
Durand D'souza HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A nVidia 8600M GS

Rendercheck caused system to hard lock up so rebooting was the only option

Rares Aioanei HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1)

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Rares Aioanei HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1)
Rasmus Ory Nielsen HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS. But If I log out from the second user (instead of switching) I see a very short glimpse of the first users desktop right before the password box appears N/A PASS PASS PASS N/A nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] [10de:0429] (rev a1)
John Poelstra HW PASS PASS PASS PASS nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1)
Alexei Panov HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL FAIL (freeze on glxgears) PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce GTS 250] [0x10de:0x615] test on LiveCD x86_64
Ronny Buchmann HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 150M] [10de:06ea] (rev a1) test on LiveCD x86_64 rendercheck seems to crash machine in various ways
Rusty Shackleford HW PASS PASS N/A PASS FAIL (checkerboard pattern) PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A nVidia Corporation C67 [GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M] [10de:0533] (rev a2) 
test on LiveCD x86_64
kho HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8500 GT] (rev a1) test on LiveCD x86_64
Ted Roche HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A N/A Lenovo 6459CTO ThinkPad T61 nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] [10de:0429] (rev a1)
Al Thomas HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] Used LiveDVD Fedora 13 Beta. Workaround for bug 573096 using nouveau_tv_disable=1 no longer stabilises image
  1. ↑ See RHBZ # 573096 and RHBZ # 517917
Michael Madore HW PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A 9400 GT (0641)
Tom Diehl HW[1] Fail[2] Fail[3] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Dell XPS with nVidia Corporation Device 0a20 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  1. ↑ smolt profile was uploaded using my f12 system
  2. ↑ The login does come up but takes 30+ minutes and is real sluggish once I get the desktop.See RHBZ # 581934
  3. ↑ If I try to run gstreamer-properties abrt reports a crash. I am unable to get abrt up to see the failure info.
Sisko HW PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A GeForce 7600 GS [10de:0392]
Fishter HW PASS N/A N/A N/A FAIL PASS PASS N/A N/A N/A GeForce FX Go5200 64M 10de:0324
Matej Zary HW PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS N/A/FAIL N/A FAIL [1] GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 Device 03d0
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #581956
Adrian HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS N/A GeForce 6600 GT [10de:0140 (rev a2)]
Przemysław Palacz HW FAIL[1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT (rev a1)
  1. ↑ Monitor goes to sleep mode immediately after kernel is loaded, fedora continues to booting but display does not wake up. Passing nouveau.modeset=0 to kernel solves the problem.
Kyle[1] HW PASS PASS PASS PASS SLOW but PASS[2] PASS PASS FAIL[3] PASS PASS nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] [10de:05e2] (rev a1)
  1. ↑ all tests done on dual-head DVI with the gfx test livecd
  2. ↑ glxgears slows from 600FPS to ~50FPS; entire desktop extremely lagged; unusable
  3. ↑ Came back up, but fan speed was maxed. Desktop, despite not having compositioning enabled, took 20-30 seconds to respond to clicks. Mouse moved, but nothing changed for said time period. Multiple issues present in dmesg upon resume.
Ty HW PASS PASS N/A PASS FAIL PASS PASS N/A PASS N/A N/A
Natalie HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS N/A N/A
RussianNeuroMancer HW PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS N/A PASS Suspend PASS

Hibernation FAIL

FAIL N/A GeForce GT240
Sergem HW PASS [1] [2] [3] PASS PASS PASS PASS [4] PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS GeForce 8600 GTS
  1. ↑ fan do not spin down
  2. ↑ artifacts when scrolling page in firefox overlapped by another window
  3. ↑ moving windows tearing
  4. ↑ wobbling windows tearing
Liang Suilong HW FAIL N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia GeForce 8600GT (rev a1) test arch: x86_64
Mark HW PASS N/A
PaulWay HW PASS PASS ? (xvideo) 2024854 tests passed of 2124238 total ? (glx) ? (fastuserswitch) ? (vtswitch) ? (suspend) ? (composite) don't have multihead
Cliff Cunnington HW?? PASS FAIL PASS PASS PASS ? (fastuserswitch) ? (vtswitch) ? (suspend) ? (composite) don't have multihead 8400 GS
User Smolt Profile Basic test XVideo X restart Rendercheck OpenGL Fast User Switching VT switching Suspend/Resume Compositing Multihead Comments
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