594353 - Direct2D not working on Intel G965

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 594025

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Anurag Mishra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100904 Firefox/4.0b6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100904 Firefox/4.0b6pre 20100904030923

Direct2D acceleration is not working on Intel G965 Graphics adapter in Minefield. 

Direct2D works perfectly in IE9 Platform Preview.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Minefield preview on Intel G965 Graphics
2. Try to enable 2D by setting required preferences
3. See about:support to check if Direct2D is enabled or not
Actual Results:  
Direct2D is not enabled

Expected Results:  
Direct2D should be enabled and used.

about:support information

Graphics
        Adapter Description
        Intel(R)  G965 Express Chipset Family

        Vendor ID
        8086

        Device ID
        29a2

        Adapter RAM
        Unknown

        Adapter Drivers
        igdumdx32

        Driver Version
        8.15.10.1930

        Driver Date
        9-23-2009

        Direct2D Enabled
        false

        DirectWrite Enabled
        true

      GPU Accelerated Layers Enabled
      1/1 Direct3D 9

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

I think this might be a dupe of bug 594025. Intel drivers older than 15.7.9.2182 are supposed to be blacklisted. The Intel numbering scheme is rather weird though (bug 594025 comment 4).

I thought there was a bug asking to warn the user that the graphics card was an unsupported version, but I can't find it back right now.

Comment 2

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

It might be useful if about:support noted that the disabling was due to driver blacklisting.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

that's bug 594045