I just want to note that setting "Use host GPU" on my Linux box running the nouveau drivers locked up X when the emulator is launched; I have not tried using the nvidia binary. Disabling "Use host GPU" prevents Fennec from running as mentioned above.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Nick Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-06-23, 6:41 AM, Ben Bucksch wrote: > >> I can't run Fennec in the emulator at all, because Fennec requires GL >> hardware acceleration, without fallback. Without this, Fennec just >> crashes, without any explanation other than the console. Finding out the >> cause of the problem took me several hours. I couldn't believe that >> Fennec would just crash in such an obvious setup, and was hunting the >> problem somewhere else. >> >> I am not going to enable hardware acceleration on my development >> machine, because it would compromise security to give the tested Android >> OS full access to my physical hardware of the desktop machine I run. >> That's a no-go. >> >> I would appreciate a no-hw-GL fallback of Fennec. >> > > In this case, I'm fairly sure that it's the emulator failing to provide a > working EGL context; such a context is just a pre-requisite for Fennec to > work. > > In my opinion, building Fennec without EGL should not be a priority, but > the gfx and platform teams will have better informed opinions here. So I > hesitate to even suggest, "patches welcome"? > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >
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