Nouveau video RAM memory capacity detection has been improved in this version

Jan 24, 2013 09:12 GMT  ·  By

The first milestone release of the Phoronix Test Suite 4.4 (Forsand) was announced on January 23, by Michael Larabel.

Phoronix Test Suite 4.4 Milestone 1 brings the following changes:

• 'common-dependencies' concept to PTS External Dependencies has been introduced; • The reporting of some already installed dependencies is now working properly; • Support for test profiles providing a 'support-check.sh' file has been added; • Support for reporting the Graphics AA/AF values to the system notes table has been added; • A public version of the TODO list has been implemented; • Support for detecting common errors within test profile install failures and reporting the relevant information to the user has been added; • Nouveau video RAM memory capacity detection has been improved on newer Linux kernels.

Download Phoronix Test Suite 4.4 Milestone 1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.