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What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on the Intel graphics card driver.

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...

What's needed to test

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 2010-09-28. It is broken. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please use the rebuilt image with the sha256sum 624ed21266aa75f2eb4949967a342970d5efcf5b842654ced8f5a2570147af63.
Architecture SHA256SUM
i686 aef08e5186201aa5d8aef92a6d7cabe659b8f60ced16a34d6c756a3fbeb9bd3d
x86_64 624ed21266aa75f2eb4949967a342970d5efcf5b842654ced8f5a2570147af63

Testing

Things to test, roughly in dependency order:

Perform each of the following test cases that you are able to with the resources available to you. Some of the tests depend on the others. In particular, X will not work without KMS anymore (well, the vesa driver will work, but that's not what we're testing here).

Miscellaneous notes:

  • A minimal test that modesetting is working is to remove rhgb from the command line and add 3 to boot into text mode. If KMS works, you should have a text mode with a lot more character cells than the standard 80x25 and it will be a little slower.
  • We're interested in tests on laptops with docking stations, so if you have one, try the tests with it connected.
  • Make sure rhgb is in your kernel boot line.

Report your results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component xorg-x11-drv-intel. 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 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 8086) 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 (KMS) Multi head DPMS DRI2/GLX Xv Fast user switch VT switch Suspend Compositing Comments
Sample user HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] i945 (0641)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #XXXXXX
diverse_izzue HW PASS FAIL [1] [2] PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS Mobile 4 Series (2a43)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #638123
  2. ↑ See RHBZ #638124
joki HW PASS FAIL [1] [2] PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL [3] FAIL [4] Mobile 4 Series (0x2a43)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #639157
  2. ↑ See RHBZ #639150
  3. ↑ See RHBZ #639150
  4. ↑ See RHBZ #639165
dcbw HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS i915
Michal Nowak HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS [1] PASS PASS PASS PASS Intel 855GM
  1. ↑ Shadows are rendered as solid black on Xv windows.
joki HW PASS PASS [1] PASS PASS PASS [2] PASS PASS PASS PASS 855GM (0x3582) IBM ThinkPad G40
  1. ↑ Compiz freezes for 40s in multi-head and stays in Standard mode. Metacity compositing works.
  2. ↑ Shadows are rendered as solid black on Xv windows.
Alexei Panov HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS [1] PASS PASS N/A [2] PASS Mobile 945GME (rev 03) [3]
  1. ↑ 50% (no internet, wifi not working)
  2. ↑ See RHBZ #512958
  3. ↑ module i915
dmitriychernyy HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS Q965
Andrew Lunn HW PASS FAIL [1] [2] [3] PASS PASS TDB TDB TDB TDB TDB Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e13] (rev 03)
  1. ↑ See RHBZ #638850
  2. ↑ See RHBZ #638852
  3. ↑ See RHBZ #638857
Walter Justen HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS IBM X41, i915 GM
Martin Krizek HW
Pass pass
Fail fail
[1][2]
Pass pass
Pass pass
Warning warn
[3]
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. ↑ RHBZ #628145
  2. ↑ RHBZ #639144
  3. ↑ Totem crashes, xine plays fine
mtasaka HW PASS FAIL [1] PASS N/A PASS N/A PASS PASS N/A Tested with F14betaLive + Installed F14+F14updates-testing tree
  1. ↑ Still seeing RHBZ #623824
sPirtovicH HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] PASS Intel Corporation 945G/GZ
  1. ↑ Network interface is not available. Windows do not respond any mouse clicks. Key combinations do not work.
M.Wagner HW PASS N/A PASS PASS FAIL (Video plays for some seconds and then crashes) N/A (Live-CD) PASS PASS TBD Intel 945G Chipset -> -> On video playback I sometimes get a message: "Disconnected: Verbindung beendet" (Connection terminated). Sometimes the video plays back okay but hangs. I also got this message during my tests: pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Verbindung beendet
Kamil Paral HW
Pass pass
Fail fail
[1][2][3]
Fail fail
[4]
Pass pass
Warning warn
[5]
Pass pass
Pass pass
Warning warn
[6]
Fail fail
[7]
  1. ↑ RHBZ #639144
  2. ↑ RHBZ #639229
  3. ↑ RHBZ #639243
  4. ↑ RHBZ #582532
  5. ↑ Totem crashes, xine plays fine
  6. ↑ Sometimes suspend takes half a minute instead of the usual few seconds.
  7. ↑ RHBZ #639140
Stephen Gallagher HW
Pass pass
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
  1. ↑ Only one output is available at a time. Unclear whether this is a hardware issue on this device
  2. ↑ (Probably) unrelated issue: after suspend and resume, eth0 was unavailable in NetworkManager
Michael Kesper HW
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Fail fail
Trying to report crash 		Medion E1210 (~~Wind U100) i945 GME
konstantinjch HW
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Mobile 945GME (rev 03) [1]
  1. ↑ module i915
Luca Botti HW
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Tested with live image, module i915
Jared Smith HW
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Failed once, but can't reproduce
Pass pass
Pass pass
Failed once, but can't reproduce
Pass pass
Tested with Live CD on a Thinkpad T510+ with external monitor connected to VGA port on docking station / i945 kernel driver / PCI ID = 8086:0046
Erinn Looney-Triggs HW Fail [1] Fail [2] Pass Pass Pass Fail [3] Fail [4] Pass Pass Using dock with external displayport monitor, everything works on laptop monitor.
  1. ↑ RHBZ #639007
  2. ↑ RHBZ #639016
  3. ↑ RHBZ #639016
  4. ↑ RHBZ #639021
Stuart Gathman HW Pass N/A Pass Pass Pass Pass - 5 min delay if compiz running bz Pass - 5 min delay if compiz running Pass Pass If compiz is start before switching VT/user, X appears to lock (system still pingable). After about 5 mins, switch finally happens. Switching back is instant.
Stuart Gathman HW Pass N/A Pass Pass Pass gstreamer-properties core dumps but video playback OK Pass Pass Pass Pass GM965/GL960
Stuart Gathman HW Pass N/A Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass GM965/GL960
Gennady Lesnevsky HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS 855GM ASUS A6L
Alex Williamson HW
Pass pass
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Fail fail
[2]
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Lenovo X201 Core i5
  1. ↑ RHBZ #639057
  2. ↑ RHBZ #639057
Vpv HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS 945GME
Antal KICSI HW Pass N/A Pass Desktop effects failed but glxgears OK gstreamer-properties test failed but video playback OK Pass Pass Failed -need to reset Pass Tested with LiveCD - i845
Manuel Escudero HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS Intel GMA 3100: All tests were ok, The compositing one had a little problem, nothing to worry about (When the compositing was activated, Gnome's top panel dissapeared and after clicking sometimes in the blank space it reappeared) As additional information I want to add that the computer has F13 Installed but I used the F14 Live CD to make the tests, also I believe it's important to mention that in KDE i can't have fully transparent panels or good performance of the Kwin Effects (Computer goes slow when enabling them) and in VMWare Player I can't run Windows 7 with Aero because as Vmware says "The system doesn't have 3D Graphics Support" or something like that. These KDE Problems are not present in other distros I've been trying out with the same machine (Kubuntu, Mandriva, OpenSUSE) Just to mention ones... P.S. I wasn't able to start Gnome Shell.
Keith Amidon HW PASS [1], [2] N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS Tested with LiveCD. KMS works while in dock with intel_iommu=off passed kernel parameters, otherwise fails as described in the filed bugs.
Oron Peled HW PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS i915GM, slow 3D performance (expected), but working. F14-Beta (from FBO), fully updated after installation.
  1. ↑ RHBZ #639146
  2. ↑ RHBZ #639173
Ira Malinich HW FAIL [1] PASS PASS PASS FAIL [2] PASS PASS FAIL [3] FAIL [4] Intel Corporation 82Q33 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (8086:29d2)
  1. ↑ Display went black between Plymouth and X startup. RHBZ #639088
  2. ↑ Slow performance unless CPU is under load. RHBZ #582861
  3. ↑ Doesn't resume, display is DPMS off. RHBZ #639195
  4. ↑ Upper Gnome panel disappears. RHBZ #639198
Kjartan Maraas [1] PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS PASS
Joris Mooij HW FAIL [1] FAIL [2] PASS PASS PASS PASS [3] PASS [4] PASS [5] FAIL [6] Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02). Tested with live CD. Sorry for being so verbose.
  1. ↑ After the graphical boot loader screen ("Automatic boot in X seconds..."), the screen switches into low-res text mode with a gray background for 1-2 seconds, then to a high-res text mode with a black background for 1-2 seconds, and then into the graphical animated screen. I would not call this flicker-free (especially the gray background yields a very noticeable flicker).
  2. ↑ I run this test twice, once with a beamer, then with an LCD display as second display (primary display was the laptop screen). With the beamer, it automatically displayed the same contents on both screens (in gnome-display-properties, the screens were on top of each other), which is nice if you have to give a talk. However, after I moved one of the two screens, the two screens showed different contents and I could not restore the original situation where the two screens showed the same content. With the LCD screen, I did not succeed in having both screens display the same content. Also, I could not make the top panel move to the other screen - it always displayed on the second LCD screen.
  3. ↑ There is no name in the top-right corner. Instead, I switched users by using the menu: System -> Log out liveuser -> Switch user. So I am not sure whether this is "fast" user switching, but graphically speaking, everything worked fine.
  4. ↑ Apart from the fact that the graphical desktop was on ctrl-alt-f7, this worked fine.
  5. ↑ The system is generally unstable after resume (various things fail in non-reproducible ways: when playing a movie, sound doesn't come back or the video image is frozen; sometimes I get many squashfs IO errors and things don't run anymore). But the graphics seem to work OK.
  6. ↑ Upper Gnome panel disappears. RHBZ #639198
Luya Tshimbalanga [http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_2ae5c56d-cd14-452a-9c68-9bf5fa84c930 
HW]
Pass pass
N/A
Inprogress inprogress
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device


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