HW Accelerated Compositing of Gecko Layers in Firefox

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Re: HW Accelerated Compositing of Gecko Layers in Minefield

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phuzi0n wrote:
Riony wrote:Driver Version: 6.14.10.6422, 1-20-2004

Seriously? Update your nearly 7 year old drivers.


I wish I could but the Mobility drivers are "special". You can't use the drivers provided by ATI/AMD unless you modify them (for example, omega drivers but the system becomes unstable). So, I gotta stay with the latest old drivers provided by HP.

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Riony wrote:Display Adapter: MOBILITY RADEON 9200

According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_Graphics_Processing_Units#Mobility_Radeon_Series Mobility Radeon 9200 is GPU "M9+ (RV280)" which is only capable of DirectX 8.1, so I don't think acceleration is supported as this requires either DX9 or DX10.


I was thinking the same, even worse, it only supports OpenGL 1.4. However, Grafx bot should have failed, confusing :-k
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ATi question, (ATi HD 4250 Mobile, latest drivers)
In ATi Options - for AA - there is Application controlled, 2x, and 4x. Where is the "force off" option?
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Re: HW Accelerated Compositing of Gecko Layers in Minefield

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610406

Some Grafx Bot tests have started failing. Could someone confirm?
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Hera wrote:In ATi Options - for AA - there is Application controlled, 2x, and 4x. Where is the "force off" option?

There is no 'force off' option but 'Application Controlled' means 'off unless the app forces it on' which usually only 3d games do and only if the game is configured by the user to enable it.
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Anyway, i dont think that option controlls Fx4's D2D at all...
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WonderCsabo wrote:Anyway, i dont think that option controlls Fx4's D2D at all...


Huh. I though it did...
Strange though that there is no ability to actually turn off AA.
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Why is HW Accelerated Compositing not working on XP with DX9 and ATI Radeon 9800 (it's DX9 capable)? layers.accelerate-all is set, but about:support shows:

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Opis adaptera                                RADEON 9800
PROID dostawcy                               1002
ID urządzenia                                4e48
RAM adaptera                                 Unknown
Sterowniki adaptera                          ati2dvag
Wersja sterownika                            8.573.0.0
Data sterownika                              1-13-2009
Włączone Direct2D                            false
Włączone DirectWrite                         false
Okna ze sprzętowym przyspieszeniem grafiki   0/1
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It seems your card is blacklisted. (Because it had problems)
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WonderCsabo wrote:It seems your card is blacklisted. (Because it had problems)

Is GfxInfo spoofing present in beta 7? Does Firefox log anywhere information why it does not enable HW Acceleration? Where in the source are the blacklists? I tried to find them, but couldn't.
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No it's not. Beta7 were cut off from trunk on Nov 04.
I dunno about any logging with HW Accel.

Anyway i'm not sure it's blacklisting, but my guess it is.

Do you have the latest Dx, VGA driver? IS HW Accel turned on? Isn't it turned off with about:config?
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WonderCsabo wrote:Do you have the latest Dx, VGA driver? IS HW Accel turned on? Isn't it turned off with about:config?

DirectX is the June 2010 release, so it is the latest. The driver is 9.1, it is two versions behind the last XP/R9800 driver 9.3, but both 9.2 and 9.3 where buggy (I also tested 9.8 and 10.2 - they were released after the officially last 9.3 and it does not change anything). All gfx and layers settings are defaults. I'll probably try a nightly build, if it won't work I will have to fill a bug report.
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Did you try a new profile?

I'm sure that your card is blacklisted.
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Re: HW Accelerated Compositing of Gecko Layers in Minefield

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WonderCsabo wrote:Did you try a new profile?

Yes I did. I also tried Minefield with the same result.
WonderCsabo wrote:I'm sure that your card is blacklisted.

I tried Device ID spoofing in Minefield and it doesn't change anything. I wish the blacklist was published anywhere...
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Re: HW Accelerated Compositing of Gecko Layers in Minefield

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Hardware accelerated compositing requires the GPU to support 4096 x 4096 texture size. All older ATI Radeon GPUs only supported 2048 x 2048, it's a hardware limitation and cannot be fixed. Only Radeon X1xxx and later GPUs supports 4k x 4k texture size.

Nvidia GPUs since GeForce 3 supports 4k x 4k texture size. Of course, GeForce 3/4 is DX8 hardware so no hardware accelerated compositing on those, only GeForce FX, 6/7 and up gets hardware acceleration.
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