[Qtwebengine] gl_context_glx.cc(69) Failed to create GL context with glXCreateContextAttribsARB

[Notorious]

Hi,

I committed this patch and recompiled, no changes...

Kind Regards

On 06/16/2014 07:09 PM, Jocelyn Turcotte wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The issue that you're facing should be fixed by the change
> <https://codereview.qt-project.org/87527>, currently integrating.
>
> we don't have any plan yet to fallback to software rendering since Qt itself
> still requires GL on all graphic hardware. When Qt has a concrete plan on
> how to handle faulty drivers we should also add support to QtWebEngine.
>
> Cheers,
> Jocelyn
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 06:49:01PM +0200, Notorious wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When using qWebEngine on a laptop with i915 graphics driver (Intel 3rd
>> gen GPU) on kernel 3.14-1 nothing gets rendered and following messages
>> occur:
>> gl_context_glx.cc(69) Failed to create GL context with
>> glXCreateContextAttribsARB
>> command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(165) Failed to initialize command buffer
>> service.
>>
>> I googled around and apparently this patch
>> (https://codereview.chromium.org/93593002/) was created to automatically
>> fall back on sofware rendering if this situation does occur.
>> As far as I can see these changes are present in the chromium fork on
>> qt-labs, but it obviously doesn't fall back on software rendering.
>>
>> Is there any way to force software rendering to work around this issue?
>> As with "chromium --disable-gpu"?
>>
>> Kind Regards
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