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stephenboston

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Registered: 2020-09-27

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brave browser fails to start : passthrough is not supported GL is egl

Installed brave browser using

  git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/brave-bin.git
  cd brave-bin
  makepkg -si

Install goes and goes to ok...

On starting the application from CLI, system returns immediatly and posts  :

libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[62316:62316:0522/211048.168967:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(426)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is egl

Tried:
/usr/bin/brave  --use-gl=egl
/usr/bin/brave --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --use-gl=egl
/usr/bin/brave --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization --use-gl=desktop

brave runs fine when accessing via ssh -X

Last edited by stephenboston (2021-05-23 08:38:20)

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: brave browser fails to start : passthrough is not supported GL is egl

libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

That suggests something is wrong with your hardware video acceleration setup.
How that needs to be setup depends on which video cards/drivers you have, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardwa … celeration .

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stephenboston

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Registered: 2020-09-27

Posts: 46

Re: brave browser fails to start : passthrough is not supported GL is egl

Ah yes, hardware... You mean like Guest Additions?

Yup. That'd be it Grasshopper.

The message is still there but the browser comes up.