[Mesa-dev] WebGL test suite, and whitelisting drivers / OpenGL implementations in Firefox

[Alex Buell]

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 16:29 -0500, Benoit Jacob wrote:

> 1. Download a nightly build of Firefox 4 there, and untar it:
> 
>     http://nightly.mozilla.org/
> 
> 2. Run it with the MOZ_GLX_IGNORE_BLACKLIST env variable, e.g.:
> 
>     $ MOZ_GLX_IGNORE_BLACKLIST=1 ./firefox -P -no-remote
> 
>     (-P allows you to create a fresh new profile and -no-remote
>     prevents attaching to existing firefox instance).
> 
> 3. Go to this URL:
 
> https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/sdk/tests/webgl-conformance-tests.html

I followed this to the letter, but FF4 did not detect WebGL on my
laptop. I guess Gentoo needs to add OSMesa to their list of packages to
test. 

Just a heads-up for the Gentoo folks.
-- 
Tactical Nuclear Kittens