REnouveau is a tool by which you can help the developers of the free and open source nouveau driver for nvidia cards. Mikos brought this up over at the Arch Linux forum. I encourage everyone with an nvidia GPU to help out!
http://users.tkk.fi/~jpakkane/ren/ has a list of which cards data is still needed from.
jeffc313 has kindly provided a tarball (http://jeff.crowell.googlepages.com/renoveau.tar.gz), eliminating the need to compile it yourself. Thanks!
If the tarball is somehow causing you problems try the instructions in po0f's post on how to compile it yourself.
Steps to follow:REnouveau stands for Reverse Engineer nouveau. KoalaBR maintains some (incomplete) documentation. If interest is high enough, it will be folded into CVS.
It is an application that runs small opengl tests and watches the changes in the video card registers. Usage instructions are on the README file. It takes some time to get into, but once you know it, it is simple to read.
When you run REnouveau, make sure screensaver does not activate, do not wave your mouse over the REnouveau decorationless window and most importantly make sure the whole window is visible all the time.
This is used to do clean room reverse engineering (this is not in violation with nvidia driver license). We do not disassemble binaries.
1.) Build and/or install renouveau
2.) Make some directory for it, e.g.: mkdir ~/renouveau
3.) Go to this directory: cd ~/renouveau
4.) Run 'renouveau' command
5.) Wait for renouveau OpenGL tests to be finished. Make sure that screensaver is disabled while running tests. Also don't cover test window with mouse cursor (or other windows) and don't move with test window
6.) Create tar.bz2 archive from all output files saved by renouveau in ~/renouveau directory
7.) Send archive to this address: renouveau.dumps@gmail.com
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