Call for community testers for intel driver

[Russell Sears]

Oops, forgot this part:

- Chipset (e.g. 855GM, 915G, G35, ...)
i965

- Machine model, laptop/desktop
thinkpad x61 tablet, (laptop)

- Monitor model (including TV), connection type used (VGA, DVI, HDMI,
S-video, component ...)
Varies; VGA.

- Driver version
Intel Git + Ubuntu Gutsy's xorg.

- OS
Ubuntu Gutsy

- Any other hardware accessories, e.g. SDVO card model or TV cables.
None.

Keep up the good work, guys!  I think this is a great idea.

-Rusty

Russell Sears wrote:
> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> xorg mailing list
>> xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
> 
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