Call for community testers for intel driver

[Russell Sears]

I have a thinkpad x61t tablet with an i965.  How should I report the 
bugs I'm seeing (send emails to list?) and future regressions?

A table listing current known problems vs chipset would help.  The 
presence of entries like "works out of the box" on the current hardware 
matrix is less than useful, since the driver's missing features (ie: 
tear-free video in xv).  I'm seeing a bunch of problems, but don't know 
which ones are known issues, and properly reporting them all would take 
too long.  Here are the bugs I'm seeing with ubuntu's current unstable 
package (git from last week):

- Screen rotation is incompatible with compiz

- Under compiz, gtk-window-decorator produces corrupt shadows and 
borders along the sides of the windows; the emerald window decorator 
mostly works (its "zootreeves" theme engine shows corruption on the 
titlebar).

- Screen rotation + scrolling in firefox is annoyingly slow at 768x1024. 
  Screen rotation is unusably slow at 1920x1200.

- PyMol is badly broken (it doesn't draw the main window; dragging stuff 
over its window causes it to partially display text over the last frame 
displayed by whatever opengl application ran last, and to partially 
display the window that's being dragged over it...)

Anyway, it would take a long time to file proper bug reports for these, 
but if I knew which subset is interesting to the developers, I'd go into 
more detail. ;)

-Rusty

Jin, Gordon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We Intel Graphics driver team would like to make closer relationship
> with community users and calling for interested users (including OSV 
> 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 
> 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
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