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The problem is that the Nouveau (and Ubuntu) devs have no way to overturn Googles decision in Chrome. Ubuntu can compile Chromium with a modified blacklist but
by zanny 8y ago
The problem is that the Nouveau (and Ubuntu) devs have no way to overturn Googles decision in Chrome. Ubuntu can compile Chromium with a modified blacklist but Google distributes Chrome in a deb. You would need some special logic to catch the Chrome .desktop on install and add in the unblacklist flag.
- bootloop 8y agoThe user can decide on his own if he wants the application to run on an unsupported driver or not. The application decided by default not to offer support for it. Who should absolutely not decide for the user is the unsupported driver itself so I think the hierarchy is just fine as it is.
- kps 8y agoThey could add “--ignore-gpu-blacklist” to their .desktop entry for Chrome.
- zanny 8y agoUbuntu doesn't have a .desktop entry for Chrome. It comes with the deb. Desktop files are installed by the programs that use them, hence why I said you need to catch the Chrome install and modify the desktop file.