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user2197116
user2197116

Reputation: 677

webGL is not working in Chromium, but it is in Firefox

I have installed Chromium Version 31.0.1650.63 on CentOS release 6.5.

I also have firefox 24.6.0 installed

when I visit a web page in chromium that needs webGL, it says 

Uncaught RuntimeError: The browser supports WebGL, but initialization failed.

I have checked the about:flags page the 'disable WebGL' attribute is NOT enabled

I visted 

http://get.webgl.org/

Which said: Hmm. While your browser seems to support WebGL, it is disabled or unavailable. If possible, please ensure that you are running the latest drivers for your video card.

Visiting that same sight in firefox gave me the nice spinning cube 'success' page.

I visited 

chrome://gpu/

and it said 

WebGL: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL multisampling: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable

Which I find hard to square with the same video card providing webgl support in firefox just fine.

Is this truly a video card driver issue or should I look elsewhere?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 12388

Answers (3)

kynan
kynan

Reputation: 13613

I had this issue after switching from the proprietary Nvidia to the nouveau drivers, a change which does not seem to have been picked up in the chromium GPU config of my profile. The fix is running chromium-browser --single-process once to reset the GPU configuration.

Upvotes: 0

Selenimoon
Selenimoon

Reputation: 322

If you have an Intel integrated graphics chip, you might have to enable hardware acceleration (i.e. exposing the GPU functionality directly to certain software) for the X.org server of the X11 window system.

To do this edit or create the configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and put the following in there:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
   Option      "TearFree"    "true" 
   Option      "DRI"    "3" 
EndSection

Sources

Upvotes: 1

Mikko Ohtamaa
Mikko Ohtamaa

Reputation: 83768

Most likely this is because Firefox and Chrome use different GPU blacklists.

Please try debugging tips provided here:

WebGL not working for same spec system in chrome. How to fix?

Upvotes: 3

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