| DATE | TIME | WHERE |
| Thu March 12, 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 Intel graphics card driver, and especially on kernel mode setting support:
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, Kristian Høgsberg
- Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson
What's needed to test
- An Intel graphics adapter (i810 or later, except GMA 500 / Poulsbo)
- Rawhide (tips on installing Rawhide 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
- Make sure to back up your existing xorg.conf file, if you have one, so you can recover if the testing causes you trouble
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.
Testing
Testing mode setting support is quite simple. If your system boots and starts X properly in the correct resolution, it's working. If it doesn't, then try booting with the nomodeset kernel parameter: this disables kernel mode setting. If that works, then KMS is problematic on your card. Please file a bug on the problem, and - if you're here on the test day - say so on IRC. Also, fill in the results table: see below.
Report your results
Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from Adam Williamson 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, as a link to the bug report for the failure. 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 | Mode setting | No mode setting | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample user | HW | PASS | PASS | i945 (0641) |