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A beta release of BurnInTest version 3 is now available from http://www.passmark.com/ftp/burnintest3_beta2.tar.gz.
Updates since Beta 1:
The GUI of this version now requires Qt 4.6.2 (and KDE 4) so a fairly new distribution of Linux will be required to run it or you will need to update your version of Qt.
Some of the new features include;
Please email us (http://www.passmark.com/about/contact_us.htm) with any issues you encounter or comments.
Tested Linux Distributions
Fedora Core 11with Qt 4.6.2 installed
Kubuntu 10.04
OpenSUSE 11.3 RC2
Some graphics corruption seen in the 3D test (possible driver issue)
Slax 6.1.2
No suitable Slax module available for Qt 4.6 so GUI version can not be run. For the command line version there is a difference in the way the ncurses library is accessed so there may be a missing library (libtinfo). As this appears to be part of the ncurses library the current work around is to create a link from libncurses to libtifo;
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5
ln -s libtinfo.so.5 libtinfo.so
Updates since Beta 1:
- Added ext4 support for disk test
- Added "Free space" tooltip to free space progress bar on disk test window
- Added test certificate option to logging and HTML template file to the download package
- Added “Test all hard disk” option to test configuration options in GUI version and new TestAllDisks option in command line config
- Disk and optical test options were not expanding correctly until after a click on/off the entry
- Status RUNNING now updated to IDLE or PASS/FAIL when pressing stop button or test finishes
- Fixed several crashes triggered in the disk test
- Changed logging option grouping to be a closer match to the windows version
- Fixed incorrect error message (when there was no error) when saving a result log file from the menu
The GUI of this version now requires Qt 4.6.2 (and KDE 4) so a fairly new distribution of Linux will be required to run it or you will need to update your version of Qt.
Some of the new features include;
- Updated CPU tests to be more up to date with current Windows version, including general instructions, FPU, SSE, SSE2 and primes tests
- Updated user interface to use QT4 (4.6.2)
- Updated main window to included system information (where available), test results and event log to allow easier access to these items
- Main window can now be resized
- Changed event log to color code information and error lines based on severity
- Added edit error classification function
- Changed some menu item names and location to be more constistent with the current Windows version
- Changed the optical CD/DVD/BD test so files should be minimally cached by the operating system during testing (previous versions resulted in much higher than expected read/verify speeds)
- Increased max limit for Memory test in 64bit version to 256GB and increased the maximum amount locked for testing to 97% of free RAM
- Changed behaviour of -M (show machine ID and notes entry) command line parameter when used with -R (auto-start tests) so the tests will not execute until the machine ID and notes dialog is closed
Please email us (http://www.passmark.com/about/contact_us.htm) with any issues you encounter or comments.
Tested Linux Distributions
Fedora Core 11with Qt 4.6.2 installed
Kubuntu 10.04
OpenSUSE 11.3 RC2
Some graphics corruption seen in the 3D test (possible driver issue)
Slax 6.1.2
No suitable Slax module available for Qt 4.6 so GUI version can not be run. For the command line version there is a difference in the way the ncurses library is accessed so there may be a missing library (libtinfo). As this appears to be part of the ncurses library the current work around is to create a link from libncurses to libtifo;
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5
ln -s libtinfo.so.5 libtinfo.so
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