Testing i915 - The easy way

[Tommi Pernila]

On Jan 10, 2016 21:48, "Jean-Sébastien Pédron" <dumbbell at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/01/2016 01:51, Tommi Pernila wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Hi!
>
> > TL:DR;
> > Did a script that gathers all X and drm relevant logs and some data from
> > the hardware.
> > dsfx.sh - a Debugging Script For things relating to Xorg
>

Hi,

> Awesome!
>
> A few comments after a quick read:
>     o  You store the output of "pciconf -lvbce" to have more
>        informations about the PCI devices.
>     o  The output of "devinfo -vr" could be nice too.
>     o  X.Org server configuration files could be in
>        /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d too.
>     o  If the kernel video driver is not loaded during boot (but loaded
>        when X is started), dmesg.boot won't contain GPU informations.
>        Maybe you could grep ": \[drm[:\]]" in /var/log/messages.

Yep, good feedback.  I'll put it in the next version.

>
> > Jean it might be a good idea to include this or something better to the
> > drm-i915-update-38 branch?
>
> A better place would be a port. We could even make it a dependency of
> xorg-server, Mesa or libdrm, for instance, so everyone has the script
> out-of-the-box.
>
> Would you be interested in submitting a port for your script?

Sure i can do that :)

>
> > Found out that there is some issues with the latest drm-i915-update-38
> > branch with my laptop.
> > I'm guessing that it might be cause of the resolution of the screen (
> > 2880x1620 )?
>
> Possible, modes above 1080p seem broken for several users (including me).
>
> > The End Game idea would be to integrate Phoronix Test Suite (found in
> > ports) to all of this.
> > This would produce actual test suites (OpenGL etc) and create nice
> > graphs to see actual regressions.
>
> On this topic, Piglit, the Mesa testsuite, is almost ready in our
> development Ports tree.

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

>
> Thank you very much!

Likewise, Thank you.

>
> --
> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>

Br,

Tommi