[Intel-gfx] Status of WebGL with open-source intel drivers

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Tue May 17 19:14:32 CEST 2011


I just gave Chrome's accalerated canvas a try - and indeed it seems to
work really well :)
Glad to know firefox (which I use for daily browsing) should also work soon.

Thanks, Clemens

2011/5/16 Zhao, Jian J <jian.j.zhao at intel.com>:
> Hi Clemens,
> It seems to be disabled in both Firefox4 and Chrome browsers now, and for Opera I have no idea.
> And we have did some tests with chrome 11.0.654.0(developer build 73098), the workloads like fishtank works well and its conformance tests has a pass rate of 5064/5520. And with chrome 13.0.760.0(developer build 84604), when enabled GPU accelerated Canvas 2D, there are some rendering issue.
>
> If you want to use it you can as following steps:
> 1. For Firefox4:
> Set the variable MOZ_GLX_IGNORE_BLACKLIST=1, then run the firefox.
>
> 2.For Chrome:
> Add an option --ignore-gpu-blacklist in the command line for the new version chrome, if ues about chrome 11, just add --enable-webgl in command line.
>
> Best regards
> Zhaojian
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: intel-gfx-bounces+jian.j.zhao=intel.com at lists.freedesktop.org
>> [mailto:intel-gfx-bounces+jian.j.zhao=intel.com at lists.freedesktop.org] On
>> Behalf Of Clemens Eisserer
>> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 6:07 AM
>> To: intel-gfx
>> Subject: [Intel-gfx] Status of WebGL with open-source intel drivers
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Whats the current state of WebGL on various browsers with the
>> open-source intel driver?
>> I have a  i945GM based machine running Fedora-14, and no matter which
>> browser I try (FireFox4,  Chrome, Opera) - all tell me WebGL has been
>> disabled.
>> Even disabling sanity checks in FireFox that prevent it from enabling
>> WebGL whith intel drivers didn't help.
>>
>> Are there any plans to support the missing OpenGL features that
>> prevent browsers from enabling webgl on my system?
>>
>> Thank you in advance, Clemens
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