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Arup

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From: Earth

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 95

Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

On certain sites like Facebook and Reddit and others, there are visible artifacts noticeable on the upper left corner of the screen. This happens during typing and scrolling however the same doesn't happen with Firefox. I am using Arch Gnome on Ryzen 9 with AMD RX570 card. Anyone else with the same issue, also on Opera the typing starts to lag badly after a while but that doesn't happen on Chromium nor Firefox.

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

The following added to "~/.config/chromium-flags.conf" fixes those problems here for me in Chromium:

--use-gl=desktop

I don't know about Opera.

jocheem67

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Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 250

Re: Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

Ah, that's funny. I just swapped my old radeon card for a much newer RX580 and see some left upper corner artifacts too. That's with LXDE/Chromium/Picom compositing and with the automagically loaded amdgpu driver. I didn't  analyze stuff yet, but I will. There are lots of options to try. Boot into gnome/wayland, turn off or edit my compositing, try different browsers. And my least favorites: start putting conf files everywhere and loose myself in tons of logfiles
I'll post some more once I find something.

Arup

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From: Earth

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 95

Re: Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

Sadly the chromium flags hack didn't work here, hopefully the next update will fix this.

thejavascriptman

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Registered: 2020-02-11

Posts: 25

Re: Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

Can you try

--use-cmd-decoder=validating --use-gl=desktop

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

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Re: Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

Sadly the chromium flags hack didn't work here, hopefully the next update will fix this.

My full config file looks like this, I use an RX580 and don't seem to have problems:

$ cat .config/chromium-flags.conf 
#--use-gl=egl
--use-gl=desktop
#--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds
--ignore-gpu-blacklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-zero-copy
--enable-oop-rasterization
#--use-vulkan

blispx

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Registered: 2017-11-29

Posts: 53

Re: Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

@Arup

what do you have in chromium logs (chrome://gpu)?

jocheem67

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Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 250

Re: Artifacts with Chromium and Opera while scrolling and typing

Ah, that's funny. I just swapped my old radeon card for a much newer RX580 and see some left upper corner artifacts too. That's with LXDE/Chromium/Picom compositing and with the automagically loaded amdgpu driver. I didn't  analyze stuff yet, but I will. There are lots of options to try. Boot into gnome/wayland, turn off or edit my compositing, try different browsers. And my least favorites: start putting conf files everywhere and loose myself in tons of logfiles smile
I'll post some more once I find something.

Same applies. Haven't got any problems on the latest kernel. No extra tweaks applied. Former post was with the lts kernel.