| DATE | TIME | WHERE |
| Thu March 26, 2009 | From 12:00 to 00:00 UTC (7am -> 7pm ET) | #fedora-qa) |
What to test?
Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on the proposed new default driver for NVIDIA graphics cards, Nouveau:
If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing of Noveau 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
- Rawhide or Fedora 10 fully updated (Rawhide tips below)
- FAS Account - you can create an account in 3 minutes if you don't have one
- Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions
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. For Fedora 10, first ensure you have installed all the latest official updates, then install these updated kernel and nouveau packages for testing (placeholder placeholder).
Test
Follow each of these test cases:
A more advanced test cases (optional):
Report your results
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from Adam Williamson as a template. For each test case, if your system worked correctly, simply enter the word PASS. If you had trouble, enter the word FAIL, as a link to the bug report for the failure.
Results
| User | Smolt Profile | Bootchart - my setup | Bootchart - desktop | Bootchart - server | Bootchart - minimal | Bootchart - full desktop | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User:SampleUser | |||||||
| Adam Williamson | HW | 27s RA: 27s | 25s RA: 27s | 31s RA: 29s | 23s RA: 21s | Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.34GHz, 4GB, ext4 |