WebGL under debian, radeon driver

[Xavier Bestel]

Le samedi 02 octobre 2010 à 19:22 +0200, Sven Arvidsson a écrit :
> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 19:11 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > I'm using a debian system rather uptodate, with:
> > xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.1-2
> > libgl1-mesa-dri 7.8.2-2
> > libdrm2 2.4.21-2
> > 
> > and I'm trying to get various WebGL examples working under Firefox 4b7
> > and Chromium 6.0.472.62. Lot of them don't work, and the ones that do
> > are quite slow.
> > E.g: http://scenejs.org/dist/curr/extr/examples/hello-teapot/index.html
> > looks like 2 fps on my machine, which has a Q9650 at 3.00GHz + RV630.
> > 
> > Is that how it's supposed to be, or is there something not well
> > configured on my machine ?
> 
> Sounds like you're only getting software rendering? I've had it working
> (accelerated) with both Chrome and Firefox, but I haven't tried it with
> r600 hardware yet.

Yes, I'm pretty sure. Compiz is accelerated, and so is Google Earth.
Glxinfo says also so.
How many fps do you reach ?

> I think you still need an Xserver with pbuffer support (the one in
> debian experimental should do) and you're probably better off with
> really recent 3D driver - the 7.9 RC or straight from git.

Xserver from experimental is uninstallable here (deps problem).

Thanks,
	Xav