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

[James Laska]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 17:53 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> 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?

As it's listed in the wiki should do the trick.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-04-01#What.27s_needed_to_test

Thanks,
James

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