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gnunn

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[SOLVED] mesa-git repository and chromium issue

I'm using lordheavy's mesa-git repo and am having an issue with Chromium that started after a couple of days ago. Basically when visiting certain pages of certain sites everything gets displayed zoomed and angled, it's really quite weird. I've tried running Chromium with --no-experiments and also reset all flags to default, it seems to lessen how often it occurs but doesn't eliminate it. Here's a screenshot of the issue:

http://i.imgur.com/Rjqf57U.png

Here's the page I'm using to test it:

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/h … lled.2989/

I'm curious if anyone else is running into this issue? Also, how does one go back to normal mesa, is it just a matter of removing the repository from pacman.conf and running an update?

Last edited by gnunn (2014-01-27 21:06:33)

gnunn

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-git repository and chromium issue

Some additional information, my computer has an internal GPU that it uses most of the time except when I am at home where it uses an external AMD GPU. (It's a Sony Vaio Z that has an external dock with a 7670M card running over lightpeak). When it uses the AMD GPU there are no issues with chrome rendering, just when using the Intel GPU.

Adding the option --blacklist-accelerated-compositing to chromium seems to fix the problem for now but it's not really a great fix since it disables hardware acceleration.

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-git repository and chromium issue

Not an Arch discussion, moving to Apps & DEs...

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progandy

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-git repository and chromium issue

I'm curious if anyone else is running into this issue? Also, how does one go back to normal mesa, is it just a matter of removing the repository from pacman.conf and running an update?

It is a matter of fetching the names of all installed packages from mesa-git, removing the repository, then reinstalling all mesa packages while removing -git from their names. Something like that.

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gnunn

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-git repository and chromium issue

Thanks, I removed mesa-git and my issue has been resolved.