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What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on the Nouveau graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics cards.

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.

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." 
  • Rawhide (tips on installing Rawhide below), or the live CD available for this test day (again 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

See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide. Or:

Live Image

If you do not want to use an installed Rawhide system to test, you can use the latest Rawhide nightly live CD. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

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Live USB label bug
If you put the image on a USB stick, boot will likely fail with the message No root device found. Boot has failed, sleeping forever. In this case, use the command /sbin/dosfslabel (if your USB stick is FAT32-formatted) or /sbin/e2label (ext2/3/4-formatted) to find the label for the USB stick. When booting, hit tab twice at the Fedora boot screen to edit the kernel boot parameters, and change the root= section to read root=live:LABEL=(label), where (label) is the label you found. In some cases, you may simply need to use the label provided by udev, so if your key normally mounts as /media/KINGSTON, for example, use KINGSTON as the label.
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If you have a slightly older Test Day Live image
This tip may be useful if you have a very recent Live image from a previous test day.

If you are a Fedora account holder, you can use rsync over SSH to update your existing ISO image in just a few minutes. First, cd to the directory containing your existing ISO image file. Then change its file name to testday-20090909-(arch).iso and run this command:

rsync -Pv fedorapeople.org:/home/fedora/adamwill/public_html/20090909_test_day_images/testday-20090909-(arch).iso .

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 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, 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 test X restart test Multihead test Rendercheck test Fast User Switching VT switching Suspend/Resume Comments
Adam Williamson HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 9400 GT (0641)
  1. See RHBZ #XXXXXX
Michal Nowak HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS PASS PASSS [1] FAIL [2] Quadro NVS 285 (0165)
  1. RHBZ #522144
  2. Suspend OK, resume not.
Martin Decky HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3) [10de:0174] on Apple iMac G4
  1. RHBZ #505161
Stefan Becker HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] (PASS) [2] (PASS) [3] PASS FAIL [4] nVidia Corporation Device (9800M GTS) [10de:062c]
  1. RHBZ #522587
  2. extremely slow, test aborted after 1 hour
  3. RHBZ #522197
  4. RHBZ #522557
pfps HW Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass [2] Pass Pass N/A (no hardware support) nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
Stéphane Démurget HW FAIL [1] PASS PASS N/A PASS [3] FAIL [2] FAIL [3] FAIL [4] NV34M [GeForce Go 5200] (rev a1)
  1. See RHBZ #522649
  2. I have nomodeset
  3. ditto
  4. ditto
Nightcast2000 HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS FAIL N/A TBD 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] [10de:0045] (rev a1)
Lukas Maerdian HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS Slyon PASS PASS Fail (suspends with flicker, suspend led gets activated, on resume backlight gets activated but screen stays black) Quadro NVS 110M / GeForce Go 7300 (01d7)
Martix HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Quadro NVS 110M / GeForce Go 7300 (01d7)
  1. Internal display connected to LVDS fails, but external display with D-Sub works.
TomasM HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL PASS log FAIL [1] PASS PASS NV43 / GeForce Go 6600 (rev a2)
  1. See RHBZ #522318
Chaosbringer HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS Chaosbringer N/A PASS N/A nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1))
Liam HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS [4] PASS PASS PASS nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1)
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation Device 0873 [GeForce G 102M] (rev b1)
  1. RHBZ #522361
Andrey Smirnov HW PASS PASS N/A N/A PASS ndreys FAIL [1] PASS N/A nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:0392] (rev a1)
  1. See RHBZ #522398
A.C.Heron HW FAIL [1] PASS [2] PASS N/A PASS [5] PASS? [3] PASS FAIL [4] nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)
  1. but boots fine without 'rhgb' in the boot options: RHBZ #522750
  2. No 'gstreamer-properties' program was on the LiveCD. No gnome-multimedia-apps was available from the link given. I was not able to set up VPN from the LiveCD, or find correct packages to install gnome-multimedia-apps without the network. The video in Totem played flawlessly.
  3. Switching to the second user and back works only once. May be a GDM bug: RHBZ #522197
  4. RHBZ #522796
mark preston Tosihba Tecra M10 laptop PASS PASS PASS TBD PASS 1hr log FAIL [1] PASS PASS nVidia Corporation [Quadro NVS 150M] (rev a1)
  1. See RHBZ #522398
Daniel J Blueman Latitude E6400 PASS PASS PASS N/A [1] PASS [6] PASS PASS FAIL [2] nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 160M (rev a1)
  1. Insufficient h/w to test
  2. RHBZ #522540
Tomas Pelka Precision T5400 PASS PASS PASS N/A - no second LCD available PASS [7] PASS PASS PASS - appears a fault after second resume (keyboard seems to work but LCD not), but not 100% reproducible nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 290 (rev a1)
Ondrej Zary HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS] [10de:02e1]
Ondrej Zary HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] PASS PASS PASS FAIL nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] [10de:0398]
  1. See RHBZ #522842
Ondrej Zary HW FAIL [1] N/A FAIL [2] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] [10de:002d]
  1. See RHBZ #522864
  2. See RHBZ #522864
Ondrej Zary HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] PASS FAIL [2] FAIL [3] FAIL [4] nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] [10de:0244]
  1. See RHBZ #522940
  2. See RHBZ #522932
  3. See RHBZ #522932
  4. See RHBZ #522932
Ondrej Zary HW PASS PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] PASS PASS N/A nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M G [10de:0428]
  1. Did not complete in 30 minutes
Ondrej Zary HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS (30min) PASS PASS N/A nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] [10de:0172]
Ondrej Zary HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110]
  1. See RHBZ #523281
Olexander Shtepa HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS [8] FAIL [1] PASS FAIL nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT (rev a1) [10de:0402]
  1. See RHBZ #522398
jlaska HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS [1] PASS PASS nVidia Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285] (rev a1)
Niels Haase HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] PASS [2] PASS PASS PASS [3] nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 160M [10de:06eb] (rev a1)
  1. RHBZ #497785
  2. [1]
  3. suspend: OK, hibernate fails because of kernel problem, not nouveau's fault
Niels Haase HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation ION VGA [10de:087d]
  1. RHBZ #522601
Michael Ploujnikov HW PASS FAIL [1] PASS FAIL [2] PASS [3] FAIL [4] PASS N/A nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GTS [10de:0400] (rev a1)
Dirk Götz HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS [9] PASS PASS FAIL

(perhaps because hardware doesnt support it, also fails with F11 and nvidia, no logs because of using livecd)

Colorful Geforce 7900GT
Martix HW PASS PASS PASS FAIL [1] [2] PASS [10] PASS PASS FAIL nVidia Corporation G71 GeForce 7950 GT [10de:0295] (rev a1)
  1. See RHBZ #522575
  2. At boot X start fails with 2 displays, but works with second display connected after X starts. X restart test works with 2 displays.
pb HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation GeForce 8300 [10de:0848] (rev a2)
  1. See RHBZ #522575
pb HW FAIL [1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation GeForce 9200MGS [10de:06e8] (rev a1) nVidia Corporation GeForce 9400M G [10de:0866] (rev b1)
  1. See RHBZ #522575
Misha Kiman HW PASS N/A N/A N/A [11] N/A N/A N/A nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] [10de:0622] (rev a1)
Jekader HW PASS PASS N/A N/A [log] FAIL [1] PASS PASS nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS [10de:0422] (rev a1)
  1. See RHBZ #522197
Ljungmann HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS [12] FAIL [1] PASS PASS nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS [10de:06e9] (rev a1)
  1. See RHBZ #522197
Linus Bäcklund HW PASS FAIL [1] TBD TBD TBD TBD PASS FAIL [2] 8800 GT (0611) (rev a2)
  1. See RHBZ #522647
  2. display corrupted, computer frozen
Mikko Huhtala HW PASS PASS PASS TBD PASS [13] PASS PASS FAIL (system does come up from suspend, sound starts to play again and the keyboard works, but monitor stays off) 8600 GT (rev a1) [10de:0402]
Mike Gahagan HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS [14] FAIL [1] FAIL [2] N/A G72 GeForce 7300 SE 10de:01d3
  1. See RHBZ #522645
  2. See RHBZ #522646
Leif Gruenwoldt HW FAIL [1] PASS [2] PASS N/A PASS [3] PASS FAIL [4] PASS [5] nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] [10de:0193] (rev a2)
  1. boot splash wrong size for display, see photo
  2. slight delay redrawing firefox window after returning from fullscreen Totem
  3. File:Renderchecklog-Leif.gz
  4. VT wrong size for display, see photo
  5. display corrupted momentarily during resume
Ivan Mironov HW PASS [1] PASS [2] PASS PASS PASS [3], but very slowly, the test took 64 minutes PASS [4] PASS PASS GeForce 9500M GS [10de:0405] (rev a1)
Luya Tshimbalanga HW PASS [1] PASS PASS N/A PASS [2] PASS PASS N/A[3] nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GS] (rev a2)
  1. Dracut did not find theme for plymouth on Rawhide 20090910, fixed on Rawhide 20090918
  2. File:Renderchecklog-20090910.tar.gz
  3. Desktop system as suspend is not available
Yulia Kopkova HW PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS [1] FAIL [2] PASS FAIL [3] nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] (rev a1)
Ivan Jelic HW (Thinkpad T61 64608RG) Pass Pass Pass Fail [1] Pass Pass Pass Pass Quadro NVS 140M (0429)
  1. Only mirroring doesn't work (kills gnome-display-properties)
User Smolt Profile Basic test XVideo test X restart test Multihead test Rendercheck test Fast User Switching VT switching Suspend/Resume Comments