2013-04-25 Radeon

DATE	TIME	WHERE
2013-04-25	ALL DAY	#fedora-test-day	webchat

Arriving after the date above?
If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing of Radeon is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test Radeon with your graphics card and provide feedback. If you are visiting after the release of Fedora 19, please wait for the next Radeon test day.

What to test?

Today's Fedora Test Day will focus on the radeon driver for ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards.

If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test 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 - Dave Airlie (airlied), Jerome Glisse (jglisse)
Quality Assurance - Martin Holec (Martix) UTC 10:00-18:00, Adam Williamson (adamw) UTC 16:00-00:00

What's needed to test

An ATI Radeon (or FireGL) graphics adapter. To confirm whether you have supporting hardware, run the following command under root:
```
/sbin/lspci -d 1002: | grep -iq VGA && echo "Join Radeon Fedora Test Day" || echo "Sorry, no Radeon graphics hardware found."
```
An updated Fedora 19 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
x86_64 (750 MB)	6c741f41647cc6a04eee0e5213f98350110e328738ae3e610905d6fa1bbe1314
x86_64 full (2.7GB, including games)	f01dc79959faeba6aa36851e03e241a9d64652f4f394f712eb8355578e4d689c
i686 (750 MB)	17a9bb6bf552228cf0f7f910113d7dc4daec769137f6d0e75eb0cf5134b753d5
i686 full (2.7GB, including games)	d5ece89cfe9a7e9aa70e0f59c1ad24d71c727f825d2974e92bdf229b1f98191b

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 XvBA.

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-ati. 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 Example 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 1002) of your card, if you know it - you can usually find this information in the output of the command lspci -nn.

Results

Long notes
Please try to avoid leaving long comments in the table, it makes it difficult to read. If you need to explain an issue in detail, please file a bug, and link to the bug.

Basic

User	Graphics card	Boot	Virtual Terminal	X restart	Rendercheck	GLX	Mesa demos	Suspend	Comments
Example user	HD 3000	pass	pass	pass	pass	N/A	fail ^[1]	warn ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #123456 ↑ RHBZ #234567
Petr Schindler	Radeon HD 6570	pass	pass	pass	pass ^[1]	pass	pass	pass	↑ File:Pschindl radeon rendercheck.gz
Michal Nowak	HD 7670M	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	N/A (APCI off)
Vincent Douillet	HD 5850	pass	pass	pass	N/A	pass	warn ^[1]	pass	↑ The demos are sluggish and render below 60fps
Jimmy Kloss	HD 5750 (1002:68be)	pass	pass ^[1]	pass	inprogress	pass ^[2]	pass ^[3]	inprogress	↑ visible redraws ↑ overview transitions not perfectly smooth ↑ fbo_firecube, teapot, terrain are slow (~10fps, ~25fps when hitting 'h')
Joey Toppin	HD 6320	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass	↑ File:Renderchecklog-rhd6320.gz ↑ glxgears cogs are paused when drag-resizing the window
Marek Zdunek	HD 4870	pass	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress	inprogress
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
Example user	HD 3000	pass	pass	N/A	fail ^[1]	warn ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #123456 ↑ RHBZ #234567
Petr Schindler	Radeon HD 6570	pass	N/A	pass	pass	N/A
Vincent Douillet	HD 5850	pass	N/A	pass	pass	N/A
Jimmy Kloss	HD 5750 (1002:68be)	pass	N/A	pass ^[1]^[2]	pass	pass ^[3]	↑ garbage on the switch ↑ glxgears exceeds 60fps -> no vsync ↑ background image gets replaced with solid color when rearranging displays
User	Graphics card	Gnome Shell	KDE 4	Screen rotation	User switch	Multihead	Comments

Video

User	Graphics card	XVideo	XVMC	VA-API	Comments
Example user	HD 3000	pass	fail ^[1]	warn ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #123456 ↑ RHBZ #234567
pschindl	Radeon HD 6570	fail ^[1]	N/A	N/A	↑ RHBZ #928741
Vincent Douillet	HD 5850	fail ^[1]	N/A	N/A	↑ RHBZ #928741
Jimmy Kloss	HD 5750 (1002:68be)	fail ^[1]	N/A	N/A	↑ RHBZ #928741
User	Graphics card	XVideo	XVMC	VA-API	Comments

3D Applications/Games

User	Graphics card	PyMOL	Stellarium	SuperTuxKart	Xonotic	VDrift	0 A.D.	Comments
Example user	HD 3000	pass	pass	pass	N/A	fail ^[1]	warn ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #123456 ↑ RHBZ #234567
Petr Schindler	Radeon HD 6570	N/A	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass
Vincent Douillet	HD5850	warn ^[1]	pass	pass	pass	N/A	N/A	↑ Really slow but seems to render OK
Jimmy Kloss	HD 5750 (1002:68be)	fail ^[1]	pass ^[2]	fail ^[3]^[4]	fail ^[5]^[6]	pass	pass	↑ slow and missing objects ↑ unstable fps ↑ changes refresh rate on fullscreen ↑ crashes with enabled vsync ↑ gib and projectiles rendered incorrectly ↑ crashes after a short playing period
User	Graphics card	PyMOL	Stellarium	SuperTuxKart	Xonotic	VDrift	0 A.D.	Comments

Experimental

User	Graphics card	Hybrid graphics	Steam	WebGL	Wine	Comments
Example user	HD 3000	pass	N/A	fail ^[1]	warn ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #123456 ↑ RHBZ #234567
Petr Schindler	Radeon HD 6570	N/A	N/A	pass	N/A
Vincent Douillet	HD 5850	N/A	N/A	pass	N/A
Jimmy Kloss	HD 5750 (1002:68be)	N/A	N/A	warn ^[1]	N/A	↑ slow (~10fps)
User	Graphics card	Hybrid graphics	Steam	WebGL	Wine	Comments

[bz123456-1] RHBZ #123456

[bz234567-2] RHBZ #234567

[3] File:Pschindl radeon rendercheck.gz

[4] The demos are sluggish and render below 60fps

[5] visible redraws

[6] verview transitions not perfectly smooth

[7] _firecube, teapot, terrain are slow (~10fps, ~25fps when hitting 'h')

[8] File:Renderchecklog-rhd6320.gz

[9] xgears cogs are paused when drag-resizing the window

[bz123456-10] RHBZ #123456

[bz234567-11] RHBZ #234567

[12] rbage on the switch

[13] xgears exceeds 60fps -> no vsync

[14] round image gets replaced with solid color when rearranging displays

[bz123456-15] RHBZ #123456

[bz234567-16] RHBZ #234567

[bz928741-17] RHBZ #928741

[bz928741-18] RHBZ #928741

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Test Day:2013-04-25 Radeon

Contents

What to test?

Who's available

What's needed to test

How to test?

Update your machine

Live image

Testing

Basic

Desktop

Video

3D applications/Games

Experimental

Report your results

Results

Basic

Desktop

Video

3D Applications/Games

Experimental