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oxygen_wobble

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[SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

Hi,

I just installed Arch on a new notebook, and it seems like browsers such as Chrome or Opera are not getting any input events.

Like, I can click on the address field and start entering an address, but nothing happens, I can't see the characters appearing.
It seems like there's only sporadic updates (like, after a few seconds some characters appear at once).

I tried with two different window managers, same problem.

I have a very similar configuration on a different notebook, and no problems there.

Any hint ?

Best,
N

Last edited by oxygen_wobble (2022-11-09 13:47:01)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

If you have xf86-video-intel installed remove it. Other than that post your xorg log: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Last edited by V1del (2022-11-09 10:33:58)

oxygen_wobble

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

If you have xf86-video-intel installed remove it. Other than that post your xorg log: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Hmm I tried that, but then a whole bunch of different problems occurs. Like, even in the most basic X configuration (twm + 3 xterms), the terminals are super laggy, etc.

With my standard config, xscreensaver crashes, and if I don't start xscreensaver, the Xserver shuts down immediately.

oxygen_wobble

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

Here's he log (with xf86-video-intel installed):

https://pastebin.com/J0QEyWb9

EDIT: Here's one WITHOUT xf86-video-intel, with the minimal config (twm): https://pastebin.com/kpZcWVyi

EDIT: Here's one WITHOUT xf86-video-intel, with my standard .xinitrc: https://pastebin.com/qwTReHN8

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

Post your .xinitrc and a stack trace of xscreensaver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump

The logs generally show what's expected, i.e. the intel driver breaking HW acceleration because it can't make use of the iris driver which will lead to all sorts of issues in accelerated contexts and the modesetting driver "generally" setting things up correctly. What's the output of

glxinfo -B #mesa-utils

from a session without video-intel ? Generally plain 2D xorg using stuff is "expected" to be a bit slower on modesetting, but should not be to that noticable of a degree and the fact that stuff seems to crash might show that something else is off. What are the HW specs?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

https://pastebin.com/qwTReHN8 is w/ xf86-video-intel and https://pastebin.com/kpZcWVyi just terminates cleanly after 10s
Then try to disable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_ … flickering

[  4196.288] Kernel command line: ---

wtf is that? Don't wildly edit around in those logs. In particular not stuff you don't understand.

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

An attempt at obfuscating the UUID ? General reminder, the UUID is not inherently a secret, the only time this can be usably used to identify you is if the would be hacker is already in your system, in which case knowing your UUID of a harddisk will be the least of your worries.

oxygen_wobble

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

An attempt at obfuscating the UUID ? General reminder, the UUID is not inherently a secret, the only time this can be usably used to identify you is if the would be hacker is already in your system, in which case knowing your UUID of a harddisk will be the least of your worries.

Yes, it's not a terribly big secret, but I edited it out some stuff anyway. Rest assured there's no kernel options regarding the graphics card in there.

oxygen_wobble

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

https://pastebin.com/qwTReHN8 is w/ xf86-video-intel and https://pastebin.com/kpZcWVyi just terminates cleanly after 10s
Then try to disable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_ … flickering

[  4196.288] Kernel command line: ---

wtf is that? Don't wildly edit around in those logs. In particular not stuff you don't understand.

Well, it terminates cleanly, but on its own, unprompted.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

Rest assured there's no kernel options regarding the graphics card in there.

I'll take the systems word over yours. If you knew what you're doing, you'd not be asking here.
You can edit away any information you understand and consider private. The rest stays. I'm not chasing ghosts.

Well, it terminates cleanly, but on its own, unprompted.

Means the session process terminates. In doubt it crashes.
Post you xinitrc and the system journal

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

and check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

It'd be less suspicious if you just manually replaced the "manjaro" or whatever was in the kernel name with "arch" rather than blanking out the whole line. Then we'd not be so keyed in to the fact that you are running some other distro.

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oxygen_wobble

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

Be that as it may, I traced it down to a problem in the window manager I'm using, and found a workaround. Works without the xf86-video-intel driver now.

Not sure what the xscreensaver thing was about, doesn't happen anymore.

Thanks for your efforts!

Last edited by oxygen_wobble (2022-11-09 13:56:30)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

Please share the solution/the workaround you used. But yes getting rid of xf86-video-intel is usually a first step in issues like these.

oxygen_wobble

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Re: [SOLVED] Blink browsers (Chromium,Opera) not getting input events

As you said, the main thing is removing xf86-video-intel. That solved the original issue with the browsers mentioned in the title.

The subsequent (and probably only vaguely related) problem was that the (rather esoteric) window manager I'm using (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bubbles-git) has a certain option that in my special case causes it to crash when the driver mentioned above is not present.

If you're using that WM, and run into the same problem, try commenting out the "[dock]" paragraph in the bubbles.conf config file. Without that option, things work great.

I already reported the problem to the creator of the WM.