问题
I want to force chrome to render WebGL using software drivers, not hardware.
I'm using Ubuntu Linux and I understand that the Mesa GL drivers can be forced to use a software implementation by specifying the environment variable, LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1, when launching a program. I confirmed that the driver changes when specifying the env var.
bash$ glxinfo | grep -i "opengl"
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL extensions:
bash$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 glxinfo | grep -i "opengl"
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL extensions:
The default GL driver provides OpenGL 1.4 support, and the software driver provides OpenGL 2.1 support.
I tracked down where the desktop launcher exists (/usr/share/applications/) and edited it to specify the env var, but chrome://gpu still shows GL version 1.4. The Chrome GPU info contains a promising value:
Command Line Args --flag-switches-begin --disable-accelerated-2d-canvas --ignore-gpu-blacklist --flag-switches-end
I wonder if I can customize the --flag-switches-begin.
I also found the '--use-gl' command line switch, but I'm not sure how to leverage it to force the driver into software mode.
As a side note, I have already enabled 'Override software rendering list' in chrome://flags/, which did remove my model from the 'blacklist' making it possible to use WebGL, but the OpenGL feature set is still quite limited.
I have an old laptop with a terrible 'gpu' that I would like to use to develop some shaders and test in WebGL, no matter the performance.
Is it possible to tell Chrome to use the software drivers?
回答1:
I don't have a linux box so I can't check but you can specify a prefix chrome will use for launching the GPU process with
--gpu-launcher=<prefix>
It's normally used for debugging for example
--gpu-launcher="xterm -e gdb --args"
When chrome launches a process it calls spawn. Normally it just launches
path/to/chrome <various flags>
--gpu-launcher lets you add a prefix to that. So for example
--gpu-launcher=/usr/local/yourname/launch.sh
would make it spawn
/usr/local/yourname/launch.sh path/to/chrome <various flags>
You can now make /usr/local/yourname/launch.sh do whatever you want and finally launch chrome. The simplest would be something like
#!/bin/sh
"$@"
In your case I'd guess you'd want
#!/bin/sh
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
"$@"
Be sure to mark launch.sh as executable.
given the script above this worked for me
/opt/google/chrome/chrome --ignore-gpu-blacklist --gpu-launcher=/usr/local/gman/launch.sh
after which about:gpu gives me
GL_VENDOR VMware, Inc.
GL_RENDERER Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
GL_VERSION 2.1 Mesa 9.0.3
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24349640/how-to-force-chrome-to-use-mesa-software-driver-for-webgl