Bug 788319 Comment 72 Edit History

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Original comment by
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Mesa/Nouveau works fine. EGL with proprietary Nvidia is available since [331.13 BETA from 4 October 2013](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGL_(API)). 
There is a proprietary legacy EGL package (https://packages.debian.org/en/stable/libegl1-nvidia-legacy-340xx), it supports 11 year old Nvidia cards (https://packages.debian.org/en/stable/nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver).
There shouldn't be any fallback to GLX. GLX support should be removed at some point. Currently, everyone uses software rendering by default. It wouldn't be a regression if, in addition, old or broken drivers had to be blocked.
Revision 1 by
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Mesa/Nouveau works fine. EGL with proprietary Nvidia is available since [331.13 BETA from 4 October 2013](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGL_(API)). 
There is a proprietary legacy EGL package (https://packages.debian.org/en/stable/libegl1-nvidia-legacy-340xx), it supports 11 year old Nvidia cards (https://packages.debian.org/en/stable/nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver).
There shouldn't be any fallback to GLX. GLX support should be removed at some point. Currently, everyone uses software rendering by default. It wouldn't be a regression if, in addition, old or broken drivers had to be blocked. Don't forget that WebRender anyway needs OpenGL 3.2 otherwise Firefox will have to use Skia (and later bug 1601053).
Revision 2 by
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Mesa/Nouveau works fine. EGL with proprietary Nvidia is available since [331.13 BETA from 4 October 2013](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGL_(API)). 
There is a proprietary legacy EGL package (https://packages.debian.org/en/stable/libegl1-nvidia-legacy-340xx), it supports 11 year old Nvidia cards (https://packages.debian.org/en/stable/nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver).
There shouldn't be any fallback to GLX. GLX support should be removed at some point. Currently, everyone uses software rendering by default. It wouldn't be a regression if, in addition, old or broken drivers had to be blocked. Don't forget that WebRender anyway needs OpenGL 3.2, otherwise Firefox has to use software rendering with Skia (and later bug 1601053).

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