firefox-16.0a2 low frame-rate, missing character textures, etc

[kanaka]

Using firefox-16.0a2 (16 aurora), the demo runs but there are some problems. This is running Ubuntu Maverick on a 8 core system with Radeon 5700 series GPU.

• When selecting low-resolution mode, the frame-rate maxes out at about 8. Selecting high-resolution mode the resolution sits at around 16. Both modes are way too slow for this machine, but the low-res mode is even worse.
• The character textures do not load. The wall, water, weapon, bullet textures are all there, but the player characters themselves are missing (floating guns).
• The sound is has crackling and static. This is even worse in low-res mode.

[kripken]

Do other WebGL demos work ok on your machine? Could be this demo is just too intensive. I don't have much experience with Radeon on Linux though, not sure how powerful that combo is (I tested on NVidia on Linux myself).

[kanaka]

Actually, this demo works better than some of the others. Certainly the graphics card is quite powerful and I am using the fglrx driver. So theoretically this should be quite fast. However, it's possible that the age of the driver/distro or just other Linux issue may be affecting performance and correctness.

[kripken]

If those GL drivers are the ones that shipped with Maverick, then they are a bit old. Could be that.