Call for Testing: Nouveau

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

Hi all,

The drive towards stabilising Nouveau for a rocking Lucid LTS release
has resulted in large changes to the packaging stack.  Nouveau's kernel
module is now in the main kernel package, which fixes most of the
problems people have previously reported.  If you have previously tested
nouveau and found your VTs didn't work, or that plymouth splash didn't
work, or that you just got no display at all please test again with the
2.6.32-16 kernel.  If you've updated in the last day, you should already
have this kernel installed.  You can check which kernel you are running
by running “uname -r” from a terminal - it should print something like
“2.6.32-16-generic”.  The important bit is 2.6.32-16.

This work means that nouveau now has a lack of good bugs reported
against it.  I'm hoping that the fine testers of Ubuntu can rectify
this!  If you've got an nvidia graphics card, please try disabling the
restricted drivers and testing nouveau for a day.  Just using your
computer with the nouveau drivers and reporting any problems you
encounter will be useful, but if you want to test more systematically,
there's a list[1] of things to check on the wiki.

Filing a good bug is as simple as running “ubuntu-bug xorg” and
describing the problem you see, and how you can trigger it, in the
report.  The apport hooks will magically attach all the relevant logs
for you.

If you run into a bug and want to invest some extra effort to help get
it fixed, after reporting the bug you can test with a newer version of
Nouveau.  These packages are available in the xorg-edgers/nouveau PPA.  
Further instructions are on the wiki[2].

Your feedback is greatly appreciated.  Let's go find some bugs!

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/NouveauEvaluation
[2]:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/NouveauEvaluation#upstreamtesting 

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