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Amalia Illios

Joined: 2010-04-07 08:23:18
Posts: 215

Built-in browser renders all black in 1.26.5 (20)

Hi Henri,

first of all, thanks for bringing MOAP to the viewer -- this definitely adds to shared in-world experiences!

So far it seems to work without a flaw. Next step will be to try and bring nasty old 32-bit browser plugins to the webkit-engine on a 64-bit multiarch system. :twisted:

Now for the "issue" (which may not really be one at all). Some time after updating, I noticed that while MOAP works fine, the built-in browser floaters all rendered black on black (i.e. the logon screen, or the "Web" search window, or even URLs opened in a dedicated browser floater). Since nobody else mentioned it until yesterday, I realized it's probably on my end and decided to hunt it down.

To make a long story short, the culprit was having RenderCompressTextures enabled. With it on, the rendering is all black on black, seemingly without error in the log, and the elements are there as the cursor does change with the presumed content when the mouse is moved across it.

Turning the option off fixes the issue, and since it's marked experimental, I prepare to be chided for it. :oops:

No less, I thought you might want to know about it.

System info follows. I skipped the logs, but could provide them if actually needed.


	Code: Cool VL Viewer 1.26.5 (20) Nov 24 2012 11:31:58 (Cool VL Viewer) RestrainedLove viewer v2.08.03.27 Release Notes You are at 153737.2, 260187.0, 22.9 in Evil Happenings located at sim8930.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.41.106:13017) Second Life Server 12.11.09.266804 Release Notes: Error fetching server release notes URL. CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor (3400 MHz) Memory: 7985 MB OS Version: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 25 07:26:14 UTC 2012 x86_64 Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 670/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL Version: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.19 libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1 J2C Decoder Version: KDU Audio Driver Version: OpenAL, version 1.1 ALSOFT 1.11.753 / OpenAL Community / OpenAL Soft: PulseAudio Software Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded) Packets Lost: 0/1115 (0.0%) Built with GCC version 40302 Compile flags used for this build: -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers -fweb -ftree-vectorize -fexpensive-optimizations -DLL_RELEASE=1 -DLL_RELEASE_FOR_DOWNLOAD=1 -DLL_SEND_CRASH_REPORTS=1 -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-trigraphs -Werror -Wno-reorder -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-deprecated -pipe -g -fexceptions -fno-strict-aliasing -fvisibility=hidden -fsigned-char -march=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fno-math-errno -fno-trapping-math -pthread -fno-stack-protector -m32 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DLL_LINUX=1 -D_REENTRANT -DAPPID=secondlife -DLL_IGNORE_SIGCHLD -DLL_ENABLE_DEFORMER=1 -DLL_NEW_HTTP_CORE=1 -DLL_MEDIA_ON_PRIM=1 -DLL_DBUS_ENABLED=1 -DLL_ELFBIN=1 -DOV_EXCLUDE_STATIC_CALLBACKS -DCARES_STATICLIB -DCARES_STATICLIB -DLL_SDL=1 -DLIB_NDOF=1 -DLL_GTK=1 -DLL_X11=1

Love,
Lia

2012-11-29 17:58:59

Henri Beauchamp

Joined: 2009-03-17 18:42:51
Posts: 6030

Re: Built-in browser renders all black in 1.26.5 (20)

Yes, it's experimental... It works for me (GTX 460 with NVIDIA v310.19 driver, i.e. the same driver as yours), but there is no guarantee whatsoever that it will work for everyone... Note also that texture compression only deals with how textures are stored in the VRAM of the graphics card (not in the memory of the computer itself), and that it is mainly meant for graphics card with little on-board memory (i.e. your GTX 670 will perform better without compression anyway).

2012-11-29 20:13:53

Amalia Illios

Joined: 2010-04-07 08:23:18
Posts: 215

Re: Built-in browser renders all black in 1.26.5 (20)

Hi again Henri,

You wrote:


	Henri Beauchamp wrote: Note also that texture compression only deals with how textures are stored in the VRAM of the graphics card (not in the memory of the computer itself), and that it is mainly meant for graphics card with little on-board memory (i.e. your GTX 670 will perform better without compression anyway).

Oh duh. Thank you so much for clearing that up. In that case, yes, I think there is more than enough RAM in the card. :lol:

Love,
Lia

2012-11-30 18:59:00

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