557896 - Display OpenGL info on error console

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

Attachment: Display info for OpenGL usage

For the time being we don't have about:gfx yet. We should display some info on the error console indicating when the OpenGL layer manager is being initialized succesfully, and some data about what OpenGL version is being used to assist in debugging issues.

The attached patch gives some information, for example on my laptop it outputs:

OpenGL LayerManager Initialized Succesfully.
Version: 3.0.0
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce GT 230M/PCI/SSE2

Comment 1

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

Attachment: Display info for OpenGL usage v2

Hopefully this improves string usage.

Comment 2

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Comment on attachment 437662 [details] [diff] [review]
Display info for OpenGL usage v2


>+    console->LogStringMessage(msg.BeginReading());

I think that you should just use .get() here.

r=me otherwise!

Comment 3

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Hey! I filed this as 556325! Do you hate me?

Comment 5

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Hey! I filed this as 556325! Do you hate me?

You already know the answer to that!

Comment 6

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Hey! I filed this as 556325! Do you hate me?

:(
I wasn't on the CC list nor the assignee. I simply missed it.

Comment 7

[Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/dae132705f35

Comment 8

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten) from comment #0)
> Created attachment 437652 [details] [diff] [review]
> Display info for OpenGL usage
> 
> For the time being we don't have about:gfx yet. We should display some info
> on the error console

Can we remove this now that there's a "Graphics" section (added by bug 586046?) in about:support?
Having this message displayed in the Error Console each time a window is opened is noisy.