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DATE TIME WHERE
Wed Apr 14, 2010 ALL DAY #fedora-test-day

What to test?

Today's instalment of 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...

What's needed to test

  • An ATI Radeon (or FireGL) graphics adapter. To confirm whether you have supporting hardware, run the following command:
    /sbin/lspci -d 1002: | grep -iq VGA && echo "Join Radeon Fedora Test Day" || echo "Sorry, no Radeon graphics hardware found."
  • An updated Fedora 40 pre-release, or the special live image (see below)
  • Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions

How to test?

Update your machine

If you're running Fedora 40, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. If you have any problems running the test, please also install these updated builds from Koji and re-test before reporting a failure:

  1. kernel
  2. mesa
  3. xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

Or you can use a live image:

Live image

Optionally, you may download a non-destructive Fedora 40 live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Architecture SHA256SUM
i686 bc0261eb4831dd38867d10ba74bbe3c1f67ed1e827757f6fe65b3bdc0bd0638b
x86_64 fa1de3c207f000ba6212b39692395e2af71a8e7322aac5cb4a92989c24decb33

Test

Follow each of these test cases:

OpenGL test cases (some of these will require you to at least move around in games):

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-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 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 1002) 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 Rotationt X restart DPMS GLX User switch VT switch Suspend Rendercheck Compositing Multihead Comments
Example user HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A FAIL [1]
  1. See RHBZ #XXXXXX
Robert de Rooy HW PASS PASS Singlehead PASS
Dualhead FAIL
PASS PASS Singlehead PASS
Dualhead FAIL [1]
PASS PASS FAIL [2] N/A Multihead makes the desktop very slow.
LVDS+VGA PASS
LVDS+DVI PASS
SVIDEO FAIL [3]
RV250 with 32MB VRAM
  1. See RHBZ #560048
  2. See RHBZ #531825
  3. See RHBZ #497055
Homer Xing HW PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A I have only one monitor :( Radeon X1950GT
Staffan Björnesjö HW FAIL [1] PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS PASS N/A PASS RS780 (HD3200)
  1. Shows garbage for a few seconds just before login screen, but everything works. If using "nomodeset" parameter it reboots just after showing login screen.
User Smolt Profile Basic test XVideo Rotationt X restart DPMS GLX User switch VT switch Suspend Rendercheck Compositing Multihead Comments