Call for community testers for intel driver

[Martin Olsson]

Awesome initiative, I'm glad I bought Intel. I definately want to help, 
it will be interesting to learn a little bit about how graphics drivers 
work in X.org

My machine is a HP Pavilion 6525SC laptop, GMA X1000 graphics card 
(listed as "Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family" in Vista). 
Chipset is 965GM (and I think my PCI ID is 8086:2a03). 15" wide screen, 
TV-out (S-video) plus TV to test with, extra VGA port which I tried to 
connect to a older HP L1925 external flat screen but that causes X.org 
to function poorly so I usually don't connect that monitor. OS is Gutsy 
(X.org and driver is still unmodified).

It would be nice with some basic instructions for testing, like A) some 
basic explanation of the contents in the Xorg.0.log (which version 
numbers are important); I see several "video driver" modules being 
loaded, what does "vbe" and "int10" do? and also, B) a short list of 
things I can do to stress the graphics driver and get corner cases; even 
simple things like "trying to use video and OpenGL at the same time" (my 
PCI ID is currently explicitly blacklisted by Compiz because video 
doesn't work well with compiz using my driver).


		Martin



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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