Call for community testers for intel driver

[Barton C Massey]

Greetings.  Great initiative!  I'd be happy to join.

  Chipset: 965 (rev 02)
  System: 2.13GHz Intel Core II Duo Desktop
  Monitor: Weird "Belnea" 1680x1050 VGA LCD
  OS: Debian Linux unstable
  Driver version: Debian 2.2.0-1

  Chipset: 845 (rev 03)
  System: 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 Desktop
  Monitor: Daewoo 901D CRT
  OS: Debian Linux unstable
  Driver version: Some unspecified Xorg build I did a while back

Hopefully there will be ways to keep this information up to
date, as it changes pretty often for me...

    Bart Massey
    Assoc. Prof. Computer Science
    Portland State University
    bart at cs.pdx.edu

In message <70F95043FD1E5B40B3872B8784B9EB75F54672 at pdsmsx414.ccr.corp.intel.com> you wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We Intel Graphics driver team would like to make closer relationship
> with community users and calling for interested users (including OSV=20
> engineers) to join a new community testing program.
> 
> Background:
> The main reason is that Intel team is not able to cover all hardware
> configurations hence not able to reproduce or verify some bugs as:
> -- some platforms are not covered by Intel validation team, mostly i8xx.
> -- some bugs only appear on some specific models (e.g. bug#11103).
> -- some bugs only appear on some specific monitors.
> -- some hardware configurations (like TV-out) are not fully covered by=20
> our limited hardware for testing.
> 
> Expectation:
> Since we are focused on the latest upstream driver development, the
> community members are expected to be able to use the latest driver and
> build git driver preferred.
> When we announce driver release candidate to community, we'll CC members
> so they will be notified directly. It will be good for the members to
> test the release candidate driver to assure the quality of release
> driver on that platform/model.
> 
> Action:
> So if you would like to make contribution, welcome to register the
> membership by sending the below information to me by email:
> - Chipset (e.g. 855GM, 915G, G35, ...)
> - Machine model, laptop/desktop
> - Monitor model (including TV), connection type used (VGA, DVI, HDMI,
> S-video, component ...)
> - Driver version
> - OS
> - Any other hardware accessories, e.g. SDVO card model or TV cables.
> 
> We'll organize this program on http://intellinuxgraphics.org with
> joined member name listed, so please also let me know if you don't want
> your personal info (e.g. email address) published.
> 
> We'll also hold an irc channel named 'intel-gfx' on freenode.net for
> intel
> graphics driver specific discussion. Everyone can join.
> 
> Best regards
> Intel OTC Graphics Team
>