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snovik

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Registered: 2012-05-06

Posts: 140

Unresponsiveness in chromium and video/audio (?)

To keep it simple, I cannot watch any youtube in chrome. The system gets completely stuck after a short while. I tried changing video driver settings as recommended here to no avail.

I do not know what to do and desperately need help. And most likely it is not flash because even with plugin uninstalled sometimes (though rarely) the chromium gets stuck on start. But this always happens on youtube website. Pulseaudio screams this

Okt 10 20:46:30 sergei pulseaudio[393]: Unable to read or parse data from client.
Okt 10 20:46:30 sergei pulseaudio[393]: Failed to load module "module-gconf" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Okt 10 20:46:30 sergei pulseaudio[393]: Module load failed.

google is rather unhelpful. But I have no problems with sound.

ps. There are also educational video on youtube

lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device [10cf:150a]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
	Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device [10cf:152b]

Last edited by snovik (2014-10-11 11:04:27)

snovik

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Registered: 2012-05-06

Posts: 140

Re: Unresponsiveness in chromium and video/audio (?)

For the records... this is where I am at the moment https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.c … e&id=73064

Booting with iommu=soft makes the problem smaller but does not fully resolve it.

Still looking for solution...

finale

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Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 19

Re: Unresponsiveness in chromium and video/audio (?)

You might have tried this already, but if not, try disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available" in Chromium's settings page.

Last edited by finale (2014-10-18 00:35:42)

snovik

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Registered: 2012-05-06

Posts: 140

Re: Unresponsiveness in chromium and video/audio (?)

Yes, I have already disabled everything GPU related.

My next step is to try some kernel before 3.10.  As it looks from the link above it is where the problem originated. I will try some old distro next weekend. Otherwise I am really out of any clues. After all digging it looks like a hardware/kernel issue. I started looking at arch and my terrible skills and tried the latest linux mint and got the same issue there. So it seems to be _modern_ distro independent.