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cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

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Chromium with Vulkan/Wayland and NVIDIA displays a blank window

If I run with

chromium --enable-features=Vulkan --ozone-platform=wayland

, I just get a blank window. I can mouseover it and see the cursor change depending on what's supposed to be highlighted, but no image is produced. There is no console output beyond the message about the cloud management controller. Using nvidia driver 550.54.14 and chromium Chromium 122.0.6261.111 Arch Linux. Also tested with chromium-snapshot-bin Chromium 124.0.6315.0 and brave Brave Browser 122.1.63.169. vkcube works fine. This occurs in either Plasma6 or Hyprland, pointing to either a driver or a Chromium bug.

Separate issue: I got here after troubleshooting why I couldn't get Chromium hw accel to work with ozone-platform=wayland. I found nothing would work until I disabled my iGPU entirely. Prior to that, all Chromium/Electron apps on Wayland would be in non-accelerated mode, with a separate "Hardware GPU" section that showed enabled acceleration options. While acceleration would work under XWayland, it had some weird issues redrawing previous frames, making things like textboxes really annoying to work with (only other thread I found describing that issue is https://forum.cachyos.org/d/451-logseq- … dia-driver). I still haven't tested whether those same issues are present on XWayland with the iGPU off.

I'm running on Plasma 6 with KWIN_DRM_DEVICES set explicitly to the address of the NVIDIA card.

Last edited by cookiecaper (2024-03-12 21:13:06)

tekstryder

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Registered: 2013-02-14

Posts: 132

Re: Chromium with Vulkan/Wayland and NVIDIA displays a blank window

Similar thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=291229

ioquatix

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Registered: 2014-03-30

Posts: 18

Re: Chromium with Vulkan/Wayland and NVIDIA displays a blank window

I am having the same issue with Chromium 124 on the latest Wayland + Nvidia drivers. Basically, the window doesn't render at all.

> sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/chromium-123.0.6312.122-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package chromium (124.0.6367.49-1 => 123.0.6312.122-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) chromium-123.0.6312.122-1

Rolling back at least made it usable.

Last edited by ioquatix (2024-04-14 03:44:37)

callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-03-06

Posts: 75

Re: Chromium with Vulkan/Wayland and NVIDIA displays a blank window

I get same blank window as well after upgrading to chromium 124.0.6367.49-1.  I have an nvidia 1660ti but using nouveau drivers

using chromium -ozone-platform-hint=auto  opens a blank window and it is using xwayland

I downgraded these packages since they were updated at the same time as chromium but the issue persisted.

xdg-desktop-portal
xorg-server
xorg-server-common
xorg-server-devel
xorg-server-xvfb

Last edited by callmejoe (2024-04-14 06:25:45)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Chromium with Vulkan/Wayland and NVIDIA displays a blank window

using chromium -ozone-platform-hint=auto  opens a blank window and it is using xwayland

Unrelated to OP who explicitly uses "--ozone-platform=wayland"?

For recent chromium see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p2164783

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Rewrap8020

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Registered: 2024-03-07

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Re: Chromium with Vulkan/Wayland and NVIDIA displays a blank window

I get same blank window as well after upgrading to chromium 124.0.6367.49-1.  I have an nvidia 1660ti but using nouveau drivers

using chromium -ozone-platform-hint=auto  opens a blank window and it is using xwayland

Seems not related to Nvidia. I've got the same issues on Intel iGPU. I set -ozone-platform-hint=auto in flags, and when chromium launches its invisible, except for a psychedelic mouse trace. When checking where its rendered with kwin, it shows its rendered on xWayland. Explicitly launching chromium --ozone-platform=wayland works (thankfully, so i can remove that flag).

I believe I enabled HW rendering with VAAPI, if its relevant.

callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-03-06

Posts: 75

Re: Chromium with Vulkan/Wayland and NVIDIA displays a blank window

Unrelated to OP who explicitly uses "--ozone-platform=wayland"?

For recent chromium see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p2164783

ah i totally misread that post.  thanks for pointing that out. 

and -ozone-platform=wayland solves my issue.