[Test-Announce] Graphics Test Week (ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics Test Days)

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 08:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:26:06 -0700
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > The testing's very easy to do and it shouldn't take more than an hour of
> > your time to boot the live CD and run the tests.
> 
> If ATI hasn't improved a lot since the alpha release, it will only
> take me a few seconds - fedora 12 alpha on my original ATI All-In-Wonder
> radeon 7200 pukes its guts out during the graphics hardware probe
> stage while booting (fedora 11 works OK with nomodeset and xdriver=vesa,
> but that doesn't help on 12).

Try radeon.nomodeset=0 (the Alpha has a bug which makes nomodeset not
work).

But yes, the code in the test day live build is actually pretty
different from the Alpha, and it's possible it may work.

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