Philip TAYLOR wrote:
...
Rather more interestingly (perhaps), Help / Troubleshooting discloses
some previously unknown limitations of my setup, and in particular,
purported problems with the driver for my graphics card :
> Graphics
>
> Adapter Description
> RDPDD Chained DD
>
> Vendor ID
> 0x0000
>
> Device ID
> 0x0000
>
> Adapter RAM
> Unknown
>
> Adapter Drivers
> RDPDD
>
> Direct2D Enabled
> Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver
issues.
>
> DirectWrite Enabled
> false (6.1.7601.17789)
>
> ClearType Parameters
> ClearType parameters not found
>
> 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.
Now I run Seamonkey in a virtual machine, as I suspect an increasing
number of people will want to do; since Control Panel shows no problems
whatsoever with the drivers for the virtual S3 graphics card, what is
leading Seamonkey to believe that there are "unresolved driver issues",
and what hope is there that a future release will be able to fully
exploit WebGL, DirectWrite, Direct2D and so on in a Windows Virtual PC ?
I think that you'll find it to be a combination of mesa drivers and
hardware. For example this is a SeaMonkey running in a VMware Player VM.
Host is Win7 and guest is Ubuntu 12.04 linux:
Graphics
Adapter DescriptionVMware, Inc. -- Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build:
RELEASE; Vendor IDVMware, Inc.Device IDGallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build:
RELEASE; Driver Version2.1 Mesa 8.0.2WebGL RendererVMware, Inc. --
Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; -- 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2GPU
Accelerated Windows0
AzureBackendskia
However, if I check on a Ubuntu 11.04 I get blacklisted (same hardware).
Reason being is that 11.04 only has libgl1-mesa 7.10.2. Ubuntu 12.04
uses 8.0.2 & works.
WebGL Test pages are here:
http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Demo_Repository
Works fine with Fedora 17, openSUSE, and WinXP with the proper host
drivers & hardware.
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