1673752 - Enable WebRender by default on Nightly on Gnome with proprietary Nvidia driver >= 460.32.03

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics: WebRender, task, P3)

Description

[Darkspirit]

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/b757a23d312f5b154887b870447ddfeae8cfcc36/widget/GfxInfoX11.cpp#536

Gnome-only, because

• on other desktop environments you need to enable "Force Composition Pipeline" in Nvidia settings to not experience choppy OpenGL.
• KDE with disabled compositing is affected by bug 1663273.

Known bugs

• Chrome is likewise affected by glitches after suspend/resume. According to the manual, users or distributions need to enable a specific systemd service: bug 1515253 comment 18
• bug 1631353
• Performance problem with multiple windows: bug 1659848 / bug 1655241 / bug 1667165 (Overall performance is still better than software rendering.)

Comment 1

[Andrew Osmond [:aosmond] (he/him)]

Recent drivers (~460.32.03) resolved startup issues reported around our device reset handling.

Comment 2

[Andrew Osmond [:aosmond] (he/him)]

I think we can turn this on in nightly soon, waiting for bug 1678044 to be resolved so we can expand the SW-WR population in nightly before taking NVIDIA binary driver users out of that group.

Comment 3

[Andrew Osmond [:aosmond] (he/him)]

llvmpipe users are now using SW-WR.

Comment 4

[Andrew Osmond [:aosmond] (he/him)]

Attachment: Bug 1673752 - Enable WebRender on Linux nightly/early beta for NVIDIA binary drivers 460.32.03 or newer.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/12744d62ec89
Enable WebRender on Linux nightly/early beta for NVIDIA binary drivers 460.32.03 or newer. r=jrmuizel

Comment 6

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/12744d62ec89