[Intel-gfx] X.org debugging info collection script

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

El Lunes, 26 de Mayo de 2008, Martin Olsson escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I used to hang around in Linux channels a long time ago and see people
> come in asking why their sound didn't work etc. Usually there was a long
> discussion where someone asked them to run various commands and paste
> back the output (to figure out what card they had, what version of which
> packages were installed etc).
>
[...]
>
> This script just collects very quickly all the necessary information
> about hardware and software configurations on the persons machine.
>
> ----
>
> Here is the idea; I believe it would be really nice if X.org created a
> similar script which collected information about graphics hardware plus
> X.org configuration data such as driver versions, kernel version etc.
>
> Having such a script would help improve both the quality and probably
> also the amount of useful reports coming back from X.org users to X.org
> developers.
>
> The idea is to completely decprecate any long tedious lists of TODO
> items for X.org users that want to help out by reporting bugs. For
> instance the information gathering steps list here:
>
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html
>

  I like the idea, I propose Debian's xorg bug reporting script as a starting 
point. I'm attaching it for convenience.

  Currently you need to run it like this: ./script 3>&1 >resultfile

  Regards,

-- 
     Raúl Sánchez Siles
----->Proud Debian user<-----
Linux registered user #416098
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