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X Proprietary Drivers Testing

Setting Up Instructions

  1. Every tested system needs to have a spare partition, because the program involves fresh installations of Ubuntu. If you don't have a spare partition, you can create one following these instructions.

  2. I know some of you have several systems, but our tracker has some limitations that prevent to provide two results for the same account. To avoid creating too much trouble, just select one of your systems and test ALWAYS with that system. [1]

  3. You have to have an account in our tracking system. We are going to use it to generate data (it will be publicly available).
    1. Go to http://xorg.qa.ubuntu.com.

    2. Click on "Log In" and "Create New Account"
    3. Once you have activated your account, go to the "My profile" page.
    4. Under the field "Global hardware description" add the model that you are testing. This is an important field, as we are going to use it to generate our reports. Please, fill it only with the graphics card model that you are testing with that tracker account.
  4. Once you're done with the tracker, add yourself to the list of participants in this page.
  5. Once you have added yourself to the list of testers in this page, ask to be included in the Xorg Proprietary Drivers Testers team in Launchpad and subscribe to the mailing list once you've been approved.

  6. You're all set!

Testing Instructions

Every week, starting on February 15th (see Calendar), we will be starting a new testing cycle. The tests will appear in the tracker and everybody is free to submit their results any time during the week. The following Monday a new cycle will start, and results will be fresh again. If you miss a week, don't worry, you can keep testing the following week.

Most of the tests involves installing an updated ISO of Ubuntu Lucid. Daily ISO images are found at cdimage.ubuntu.com. We advise that you download the images you expect to test ahead of time and use zsync to update them, as this will reduce the turn around time on testing.

For every image at cdimage.ubuntu.com there is a .zsync link that you can use with zsync to sync your images. I.e.:

zsync http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/lucid-alternate-i386.iso.zsync

Training

We have set up one fake cycle in the tracker already, so you can play around, ask as many questions as you may have and even submit your first results. As a fake cycle, don't worry about doing it wrong, the data won't be used for the reports. As we have told before, the real testing starts February 15th.

Calendar

Cycle Name

Starts

Ends

FakeCycle

Now

February 14th

Week1

February 15th

February 21st

Week2

February 22nd

February 28th

Week3

March 1st

March 7th

Week4

March 8th

March 14th

Week5

March 15th

March 21st

Week6

March 22nd

March 28th

Week7

March 29th

April 4th

Week8

April 5th

April 11th

Week9

April 12th

April 18th

Week10

April 19th

April 25th

Testers

Username

Name

Launchpad ID

Email

Model

ara

Ara Pulido

apulido

ara@ubuntu.com

nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M

corp186

Chase Douglas

chasedouglas

chase.douglas@canonical.com

nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] (rev b1)

kklimonda

Krzysztof Klimonda

kklimonda

krzysztof.klimonda@gmail.com

nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M

ddewbofh

David Weizades

ddewbofh

ddewbofh@gmail.com

AMD/ATI Radeon 5870

PRab

Paul Rabahy

PRab

prabahy@gmail.com

nVidia Geforce 9600M GT

KeineLust90

Michael Daum

wolfenstein2890

wolfenstein2890@gmail.com

Mobile ATi Radeon 3200HD

Caseyjp

Casey J. Peter

Caseyjp1

caseyjp1@gmail.com

BFG GTX260 OC Maxcore55

FAQ

Can I install [K,X]ubuntu instead?

For the moment we are only interested in Ubuntu results, sorry.


Footnotes:

  1. If you really, really want to test all your systems, you will need to create one account per system to avoid messing up the data (1)