[Test-Announce] Join Fedora X Test Week - Nouveau, Radeon, Intel (2012-09-25 - 2012-09-27)

[John Reiser]

> Do you have any old or new graphic hardware, working or not? Join this test week and help us to hunt down driver bugs before Fedora 18 Beta release!

There is doubt about whether this particular test day is worth the time.

At a minimum, don't bother with any Radeon card that is less than a Radeon 9600.
Fedora pays no attention to bugs on such hardware, not even saying "Sorry, this
hardware is too old; we will increase the minimum hardware requirement" or
"This is hardware bug, and a software workaround is not feasible."  For instance:
   radeon_rendercheck 152752 failures; pci:1002:5157 Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638758
   This card still is usable in XFCE.

Gnome3 is not putting any effort into fallback mode.  So my Radeon 9250
purchased new in 2006 as a mid-life upgrade for a box with 1.6GHz Pentium 4
(well above the Fedora minimum CPU) also runs only XFCE.  Gnome3 forces
fallback mode, where some Desktop features are *dropped* instead of emulated.

Also forget about any card+monitor which does not report EDID/DCC.  The Xorg.0.log
may note the true resolution of the panel (for instance, 1024x768), but the driver
gives only 800x600:
   rage128 uses 800x600 resolution for LCD panel with 1024x768 native resolution
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493441

The nouveau driver also ignores reports, even on current-generation cards.
For instance:
   glxgears framerate 12X faster than video refresh
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639415

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