Call for community testers for intel driver

[Jesse Barnes]

On Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:08 pm 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.

Yeah, and searching bugzilla can be a pain too.  We really should do a better 
job of documenting known issues with each release; I know I haven't been as 
diligent as I should be about that in the past.

> 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).

I don't think we have a bug open for this, can you file one with the details?

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

This is likely the now infamous EXA performance bug.  The bug is ostensibly 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389, but much of the 
development has been happening on IRC or on the mailing lists (see the 
batchbuffer branch at 
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel.git;a=shortlog;h=intel-batchbuffer 
if you're interested in testing).

> - 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...)

I *think* this one's been reported (at least it's mentioned in 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11847), but we could probably 
use more details and/or testers here.

> 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. ;)

I understand, thanks for taking the time to at least give an overview of the 
issues you're seeing.  Hopefully you'll have time to file bugs and continue 
testing.

Thanks,
Jesse