WebGL GPU Acceleration Issue

[vandorjw]

Hey Everyone,

WebGl does not work for me. According to firefox support page its because of "Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues."

Is it really an unresolved Driver issue or is my GPU just too old? This tower might be old, but it is really not that bad.

What is the proper Ubuntu method to check for and remove conflicting drivers?

Also, what is the prefered driver for this card?

Cheers

basement@Presario-6350CA:~$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2

From about:support

Application Basics
Name: Firefox
Version: 12.0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0

Graphics
Adapter Description: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. -- Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
Vendor ID: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
Device ID: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
Driver Version: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.2
WebGL Renderer: Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
GPU Accelerated Windows: 0. Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
AzureBackend: skia

[idoitprone]

Hey Everyone,

WebGl does not work for me. According to firefox support page its because of "Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues."

Is it really an unresolved Driver issue or is my GPU just too old? This tower might be old, but it is really not that bad.

What is the proper Ubuntu method to check for and remove conflicting drivers?

Also, what is the prefered driver for this card?

Cheers




From about:support

yep your card is too old
webgl uses opengl 2.0 specs while your card support only 1.3
All i can say is upgrade your
outdated card

Device ID: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
Driver Version: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.2

WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 will recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar to those of the underlying OpenGL ES 2.0 API. It stays very close to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, with some concessions made for what developers expect out of memory-managed languages such as JavaScript.
http://www.khronos.org/webgl/

[vandorjw]

Thank you. This is what I thought the issue was. Thanks for confirming.
I may upgrade to this. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...tem=14-500-228
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