Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver Model

Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by TheLoneWolfling on Saturday September 05, 2015 @03:14PM (#10175753)

How long until we get a heartbleed-like attack where some software overruns its GPU buffer into a webgl buffer?

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by MaulingMonkey on Saturday September 05, 2015 @03:21PM (#10175770)

FWIW I've been running with WebGL disabled because of similar concerns.

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by thrownaway2424 on Saturday September 05, 2015 @06:01PM (#10176184)

WebGL works if you enable it? On Linux I've never seen anything other than error messages from WebGL.

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by thristian on Saturday September 05, 2015 @06:32PM (#10176250)

WebGL exercises some new corners of the OpenGL interface that many drivers weren't prepared for when WebGL arrived, so browsers tend to have an extensive blacklist: if you have a driver on the list, you won't get WebGL.

On a rolling release like Debian Testing, with well-supported hardware like the Intel Ivy Bridge integrated GPU, WebGL has always worked beautifully.

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by gkop on Saturday September 05, 2015 @11:27PM (#10176744)

You can try overriding the blacklist in Chrome, that worked well for me when I needed to for a Debian/Nvidia system a couple years ago.

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Re:Maybe it’s time to talk about a new Linux Display Driver ... by MaulingMonkey on Sunday September 06, 2015 @03:43AM (#10177037)

Ahh, I've been disabling it on Windows, however silly that might be.

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