Chromium is the development version of Chrome , right? Sort of like Fedora is to RHEL, right? So the Chromium support you mention should be coming to Chrome sooner or later.
>From what I've been able to work out the reason it doesn't yet work in Chrome but does work in Firefox/Chromium is as follows (please bear in mind I am not am expert but have simply tried to learn through a bit of research online). Although Chrome/Chromium/Firefox use WebGL which is based on OpenGL ES, I have learned from reading Mozilla bug reports that there is more than one way to execute a command in an OpenGL program. There are a variety of ways a browser can ask the drivers to do the work, via various driver functions. This seems to consist of a variety of alternative and fallback functions and paths in the drivers if the requested function is not implemented in the driver or is not supported on the hardware. Some of these fallbacks will be slower than the originally requested function. My guess is that Google has only implemented some these alternatives and fallbacks recently. Of course Mesa's radeon drivers (r300g and r600g, particularly the latter which is for the newer R600 and later cards) could also be improved and extended to support the functions currently being requested by Chrome. But this is only my best guess and I don't have any evidence to support my hypothesis. Google could probably tell you and as I said earlier I would assume that they have already talked to ATI/AMD about this for the binary fglrx (Catalyst) driver and to the kernel, Mesa and DDX developers about this for the open-source radeon drivers. Anyway it seems that support is on it's way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685321 Title: webgl doesn't work with chrome Status in X.org XServer - ATI gfx chipset driver: Unknown Status in “xserver-xorg-video-ati” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu. "You are using Ubuntu 10.10 - the Maverick Meerkat - released in October 2010 and supported until April 2012" 2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic. xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Installed: 1:6.13.1-1ubuntu5 Candidate: 1:6.13.1-1ubuntu5 3) What you expected to happen After installing chrome beta and starting with --enable-webgl, i expected the webgl demo at http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/webgl/spore/sporeview.html to work 4) What happened instead the webgl demo didn't work, got tihs message on stderr: drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream. See dmesg for more info. dmesg had [232139.322399] radeon 0000:01:05.0: z/stencil buffer too small (0x3FFFFC01 1048576 1 4 -> 268435456 have 4096) [232139.322409] radeon 0000:01:05.0: r600_packet3_check:1108 invalid cmd stream 518 [232139.322415] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Invalid command stream ! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.13.1-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 DRM.card0.DVI.D.1: status: disconnected enabled: disabled dpms: Off modes: edid-base64: DRM.card0.VGA.1: status: connected enabled: enabled dpms: On modes: 1024x768 800x600 800x600 848x480 640x480 edid-base64: Date: Sun Dec 5 01:12:09 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=UUID=0c719a59-7ad7-402c-af5b-2fdb744a7c4b ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati dmi.bios.date: 09/08/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1701 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: M4A88TD-M EVO dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1701:bd09/08/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM4A88TD-MEVO:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: maverick architecture: x86_64 kernel: 2.6.35-23-generic xkbcomp: Error: command ['xkbcomp', ':0', '-w0', '-'] failed with exit code 1: No protocol specified Error: Cannot open display ":0" Exiting To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/685321/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
