Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:

> Mark Vojkovich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > On of the key issues that I see at work here, is something I brought up 
> > > quite a few years ago now. XFree86 desperately needs a suite of 
> > > conformance tests that can be used to validate that a driver module is 
> > > correct and the binary interfaces are functioning properly. The loadable 
> > > module system is a step in the right direction, but simply compiling all 
> > > the modules and releasing them as a single lump for every XFree86 version 
> > > is inviting trouble. Unless someone has a change to sit down and 
> > > physically test the driver modules on all 'supported' hardware, there is 
> > > a very good chance that things will break.
> > 
> >    The xtest suite gives the driver a pretty good workout, at least
> > as far as rendering goes. 
> 
> Where can xtest be found? I assume somewhere in the source tree, but I 
> never even knew it existed until now.

   xc/test

   It takes a about an hour to run, should be run without a
window manager, and you get some failures if you don't configure
it correctly.


			Mark.