Radeon Test Day: Wednesday April 1st (yes, really)

[John Poelstra]

Adam Williamson said the following on 03/31/2009 10:08 AM Pacific Time:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 16:42 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> 
>>> I added some instructions to the wiki to help identify the hardware.
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Radeon_2009-04-01#What.27s_needed_to_test
>>>
>>> I'm only keying off of a vendor string of
>>> "1002" (from /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids).  Please advise if additional
>>> strings are needed.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> James
>>>   
>> wtf...
>>
>> Testers start using and providing smolt profile when doing HW related tests
> 
> They already do, but this is at a different stage. This is at the point
> where the user is deciding whether they actually have the right hardware
> to participate in the test.
> 
> James, just a vendor ID of 1002 in something isn't enough, because ATI
> make lots of other things besides graphics cards. That could just
> indicate you have, say, an ATI motherboard, but you might have a
> different graphics card plugged into it. Still, I just don't see this as
> a huge issue, I really don't think many people don't know what graphics
> card they have?

It isn't a *huge* issue.  Why not make it easy for someone who doesn't 
know kind of card they have and who wants to help, find out?

John