This page should provide information regarding testing grml releases. This kind of quality management should improve the process of releasing stable releases. Feel free to contribute and extend it! Contact us if you have any questions. Also take a look at the laptops-webpage for some more information about testing. Thank for you helping improve grml!
Known issues of devel-release can be found at the grml-devel-webpage and known issues of pre-releases can be found at the release-candidate-webpage.
- => not yet tested (needs testing therefore!) Release => grml-version used when testing Tester => name of tester Notes => additional notes useful for grml-developers
Feel free to extend the list. Please be specific what kind of hardware you tested, add details to the column named ‘Notes’.
| HW | Release | Tester | Notes/Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALPS-Touchpad | - | - | - |
| AMD | - | - | - |
| Bluetooth | 0.8-rc1 | tklauser | Modules got loaded correctly but BT mouse didn’t work |
| Cpufreq | - | - | - |
| DRI | - | - | - |
| Firewire | - | - | - |
| Intel Single Core | 0.7-6 | mika, schot | Samsung X20, Celeron |
| Intel Dual Core | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 0.8 0.8-4 | mika jimmy grassi schot | IBM T60 Lenovo X60s Samsung NP-X11-E Apple MacBook |
| LAN | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 0.8-rc1 | schot tklauser jimmy | Realtek 8139 (dhcp didn’t work, grml kernel: disabling IRQ #117; fix: ‘grml irqnopoll’)Intel PRO/1000 (Module e1000) Lenovo X60s: e1000 |
| PCMCIA | 0.8-rc1 | jimmy | Lenovo X60s and umts card |
| SCSI | - | - | - |
| Sound | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 0.8-rc1 0.8-rc1 | mika tklauser jimmy grassi | IBM T60 IBM T42 (snd_intel8x0) Lenovo X60s (snd_hda_intel): Had to rerun alsaconf Samsung NP-X11-E: After rerunning alsactl, it plays the demo accompanied with a sound like tinnitus (also on latest Ubuntu 6.06 and SuSE 10.0) |
| Synaptics-Touchpad | 0.7-6 0.8 | thomerz grassi | hp nx8220 Samsung X11 (even the pseudo-Scroll-thing on the touchpad works) |
| USB | - | - | - |
| WLAN | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 | mika, thomerz leno | ipw3945, ipw2200 ipw2200 |
See kernel-webpage for more information regarding the modules.
| Kernelmodule | Release | Tester | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| acerhk | - | - | - |
| acx100 | - | - | - |
| adp94xx | 0.8-rc1 | jimmy | tested with IBM X206m |
| bcm5700 | - | - | - |
| cowloop | - | - | - |
| dazuko | - | - | - |
| drbd0.7 | - | - | - |
| exmap | - | - | - |
| fglrx | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 | thomerz tklauser | X600 (fglrx driver isn’t loaded properly → fallback to mesa) T42, module loads but starting X with grml-x -module fglrx <wm> hangs the computer (unable to switch back to any VT) |
| ipw3945 | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 | mika jimmy | IBM T60 Lenovo X60s |
| ivtv0.7 | - | - | - |
| kqemu | hd-install | mika | tested with qemu 0.8.1-grml01 |
| linux-wlan-ng | - | - | - |
| lufs | - | - | - |
| madwifi | 0.8-rc1 | tklauser | IBM T42 |
| ndiswrapper | - | - | - |
| nozomi | 0.8-rc1 | jimmy | tested with T-mobile PCMCIA card |
| nvidia | - | - | - |
| openafs | - | - | - |
| pcan | - | - | - |
| pwc | - | - | - |
| qc-usb-modules | - | - | - |
| realtime-lsm | - | - | - |
| reiser4 | - | - | - |
| rt2x00 | - | - | |
| rt2400 | - | - | - |
| rt2500 | - | - | - |
| rt2570 | - | - | - |
| sl-modem | - | - | - |
| snd-bt-sco | - | - | - |
| snd_hda_intel | 0.8 | grassi | SamsungX11 - screeching noise (high frequency) together with the normal sound → unusable |
| spca5xx | 0.7-6 | schot | Logitech QuickCam Express II |
| speakup | - | - | - |
| sysprof | - | - | - |
| thinkpad | - | - | - |
| tidev | - | - | - |
| vaiostat | - | - | - |
| zd1211 | - | - | - |
Please feel free to extend the list, just add all the software you tested!
| Script | Release | Tester | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| bt-audio | 0.8-rc1 | jimmy | fails because dbus is not started, thus hcid can not be started |
| bt-hid | - | - | - |
| cdcd | 0.8-rc1 | leno | does not work for me (Samsung X20) |
| cdplay | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 | leno leno | broken, was working with 0.7 |
| dwm | 0.7-6/0.8-4 0.8-rc1 | schot leno | - - |
| grml2hd | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 | mika leno | - - |
| grml2hd on external usb | - | - | - |
| grml2hd on external firewire | - | - | - |
| grml-btnet | - | - | - |
| grml-crypt | - | - | - |
| grml-network | - | - | - |
| grml-terminalserver | - | - | - |
| grml-vpn | - | - | - |
| grml-x | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 0.8-rc1 0.8-4 | mika leno jimmy schot | Samsung X20 (with grml-samsung-x20) Lenovo X60s Apple MacBook |
| hibernate | - | - | - |
| kismet | 0.8-rc1 | leno | - |
| lvm | 0.7-6b | mika | see blog-entry |
| mdadm | 0.7-6b | mika | - |
| mpt-status | 0.8 | leno | couldn’t be restarted since apt-get update && apt-get upgrade |
| ndiswrapper | - | - | needs testing with 1.21-1 |
| mplayer | 0.7-6 | mika/wuehlmaus | broken, see grml_devel |
| vim | 0.7-6 | mika | - |
| wvdial | 0.8-rc1 | jimmy | tested with umts card |
| XF86Audio* | - | - | - |
| xsay | - | - | - |
Please add all bootoptions you have tested. See grml-cheatcodes.txt for a complete list of available bootoptions/cheatcodes.
| Bootoption | Release | Tester | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | 0.7-6 | mika | tested with vmware workstation build 5.0.0 build-13124 |
| debnet | 0.7-6 | mika | - |
| samsung_x20 | 0.7-6 0.8-rc1 | mika leno | - - |