Call for community testers for intel driver

[nikosapi]

On January 17, 2008 07:43:46 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

Here's my info:

 Chipset:            965GM [8086:2a02]
 Machine:           Lenovo 3000 V200 (laptop)
 Monitor:            1280x800 LVDS (Can test VGA output if required)
 Driver Version:  xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.1.1-7.fc8
 OS:                   Fedora 8

Hope I can help,

nick