Firefox acceleration & AMD Gallium3D = Most sad thing...

[bridgman]

you are a future traveler ? because firefox6 isn't released right now.

Sure, but there have been nightly builds available for a while. I wouldn't expect the Firefox devs to go back to already-released versions and update those.

[whizse]

As of today, Gallium3D drivers are no longer blacklisted.

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8e5753fe4939

This change will appear in tomorrow's Nightly, and eventually in Firefox 7. I'm trying to get it accepted in Aurora / Firefox 6, but no guarantees about that.

That's great news! Thanks for working on this!

Now, if only Google could be convinced to do the same

[bjacob]

Gallium is no longer blacklisted as of today!

As of today, Gallium3D drivers are no longer blacklisted.

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8e5753fe4939

This change will appear in tomorrow's Nightly, and eventually in Firefox 7. I'm trying to get it accepted in Aurora / Firefox 6, but no guarantees about that.

[Death Knight]

I don't use that patch if nightly releases doesn't include it by default. I couldn't compile ff
But worth to try...

[smitty3268]

Also, it shows 10 FPS at http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/HWACCEL/
In windows it past the 60...

By the way, make sure you have this patch from 5/17, it may speed up the FPS.

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4b8d96e463fd

From bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602380

[smitty3268]

Do you sure if force-enable not required?

Layers acceleration is not enabled on any graphics card on linux, because of the glitches you noticed. That's likely bugs with Firefox and not the graphics drivers.

XRender is always on, and used automatically through Cairo.

WebGL is the feature that gets turned on/off depending on your driver.

For FF6+,

Free Mesa-based drivers are whitelisted if the Mesa version is at least 7.10 and the driver is not Gallium-based. See the discussion in bug 645407. Regarding Gallium, see bug 624935.
For example, the free Intel driver that ships in Ubuntu 11.04 is whitelisted.
For the NVIDIA driver, versions 257.21 and newer are whitelisted, exactly like on Windows (see above).
For the FGLRX (proprietary ATI) driver, we whitelist the newer versions that implement OpenGL 3.0 or newer. Indeed, FGLRX does not return any version number of its own, so we had to use the OpenGL version as a differentiator.

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklistin...aphics_Drivers

[bridgman]

Do you sure if force-enable not required?

I'm not sure at all about FF 7. What you are doing there looks right, and the status output confirms that you do not get "GPU accelerated windows" without forcing.

The only docco I could find was for FF 6, and that docco suggested that acceleration was enabled with fglrx with FF 6.

[bwat47]

I've found even when force enabled it sucks with all the oss drivers, even intel. Its also pretty bugged with fglrx.

[Death Knight]

Nope, using FF7a1...

I see that at "about:support" page

Graphics:
Adapter Description : ATI Technologies Inc. -- AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Driver Version4.1.10750 
Compatibility Profile Context
WebGL Renderer : ATI Technologies Inc. -- AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series  -- 4.1.10750 Compatibility Profile Context
GPU Accelerated Windows : 0/1

But I If use force-enable

GPU Accelerated Windows : 1/1 OpenGL

Do you sure if force-enable not required?

[bridgman]

You shouldn't have to force anything on. Are you sure you're using FF6 ?