Chromium Displaying Artifacts On Youtube

Hi LQ,
I am currently experiencing an issue on a fresh install of Mint 17.1 Cinnamon in which I am permanently stuck in fallback mode (that is, unless I hard shutdown or reboot) on an aging laptop with AMD Radeon HD 4200 graphics (considered legacy). I believe this issue was caused by a failed install of AMD's latest linux graphics drivers, in which I literally opened the .run file and attempted to install. The install failed (some error), of course, but when I rebooted, I was kicked into fallback. After some googling, I autoremoved fglrx then installed fglrx, as I read would reinstall fglrx, the proprietary drivers for AMD cards and rebooted. Still stuck in fallback. I removed and installed Xorg and rebooted. Still stuck in fallback. I downloaded the AMD legacy drivers from AMD's site (my card's series included with this set). Had to change the permissions to run this .run file but eventually ran it from terminal, but this install also failed (claimed I was missing tool(s), despite not indicating precisely what I was missing). I'm still rummaging around for fixes, but maybe asking can help. I can provide some more info below, but let me know what else you need (and how to get it) if you wish to help. I really want linux to work out for me instead of shelling out $$ for Windows, but so far this has been a rocky start. Thanks


Code:

inxi -G

yields
Code:

Graphics:   Card: AMD RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]
X.Org: 1.15.1
drivers: fbdev,ati,radeon (unloaded: fglrx,vesa)
Resolution: 1024x768@76hz
GLX Renderer: N/A
GLX Version: N/A

Code:

lshw -C video

yields
Code:

*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]
vendor: AMD
physical id: 5
...(bunch of stuff on specs)

Have also did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
Still no luck, let me know what you think.

I recently installed elementaryOS and everything was working fine until I changed the drivers in the Additional Drivers section.
I then tried changing back to the drivers previously used and others but to no avail. I can see the menu bar at the top and run applications, but the whole desktop just appears black.

Here is some info.

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 310] (rev a2)

  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GT218 [GeForce 310]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:44 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:ce000000-cfffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:fbe80000-fbefffff
[1]+  Done                    lspci | grep --color=auto VGA

How can I fix this issue?

I have a debian OS on a partition on my hard disk (sda1).
There was no sound because the ati rs880/radeon 4200 sound card needed drivers which were only in the debian 'non-free' version'.
So I added the non-free version to my install and also had to make a change to the GRUB bootloader file.
After that, I got sound.

Now I've installed a new debian distro to my second partition - sda2.
This time I ensured I installed the debian non-free version.
But I'm having trouble installing the drivers for the sound card.

I go into Synaptic package manager to install the relevant drivers and it gives me an error message:
Code:

Configuring libfglrx - install Fglrx driver despite unsupported graphics card?

I'm not sure what that means because I want the drivers for my sound card - not graphics.
When I press the 'Help' button, it says:
Code:

This system has a graphics card which is no longer handled by the Fglrx driver...
The above card requires either the non-free legacy Fgrlx driver 
(package fgrlx-legacy-driver) or the free Radeon driver (package xserver-xorg-video-radeon).

This is fine because I can just install the 'free Radeon driver'.

But the Help message then says:
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Before the Radeon driver can be used you must remove Fglrx configuration from xorg.conf 
(and xorg.conf.d/)
Note that switching to the free Radeon driver requires the fglrx-driver package to be purged (not just removed).

So now I don't know what to do. Has anyone had this error message?
I know I can enable sound and have no problems with the graphics card because that's what happened with my original install on sda1.

But with the install on sda2, I don't know how to approach this problem.
Can anyone help please?

Hi all,I'm new member of this forum.
I started using linux 1-2 month ago and I like it.

On elementary OS, youtube video has bad,low quality.
The same video on windows has good quality.
Also on Linux Mint it has also good quality.

I've main problem with elementary os.
I've Intel HD 3000 video card(VGA)

Hp 4330s laptop.

What can I do?

Hi everybody! Im new member in linux community so please for help . I have already 2 application installed like skype and chromium and those application does'nt work ,from the other side flash also not working i have old one laptop . And i have much problems with console , my distro is lxle 12.04 and laptop is asusu l300d .

Sory for my english cause im not from UK/US temporary im forced to using my old one laptop Thanks for help

I have a laptop with an integrated GMA3600 GPU. Every "modern" distro was unusable because the screen would flicker and black out like crazy, so I installed one of the few that didn't present this behaviour -- Crunchbang 11, based on Wheezy.

I'm trying to address this issue; I'll compare a few outputs from 1) my current setup (Crunchbang) and 2) one of the non-working alternatives (Lubuntu 14.10 on a live USB):

uname -r
1) 3.2.0-4-686-pae
2) 3.16.0-23-generic

sudo lshw -c video
1)
Code:

description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0b
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=gma500 latency=0
       resources: irq:46 memory:80100000-801fffff ioport:30c0(size=8)

2)
Code:

*-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0b
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=gma500 latency=0
       resources: irq:45 memory:80100000-801fffff ioport:30c0(size=8)

The only difference is the IRQ used.

cat /proc/interrupts
1)
Code:

           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:         41          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:        517          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:       7245          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:       2597          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 16:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5
 18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
 19:      13520          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb3
 23:      26138          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
 44:        369          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
 45:        255          0   PCI-MSI-edge      snd_hda_intel
NMI:         69         47   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:      27594      20371   Local timer interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
PMI:         69         47   Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI:          0          0   IRQ work interrupts
RES:      33502      39919   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:        407       6719   Function call interrupts
TLB:       1138       1213   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
THR:          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE:          0          0   Machine check exceptions
MCP:          1          1   Machine check polls
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

2)
Code:

           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:         46          0   IO-APIC-edge      timer
  1:       2154          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  8:          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
  9:      37131          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
 12:      11292          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
 16:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5
 18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb4
 19:       1309         11   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix, uhci_hcd:usb3
 23:      20420       6875   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
 44:      15634          0   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
 45:          0          0   PCI-MSI-edge      gma500
 46:        194          0   PCI-MSI-edge      snd_hda_intel
NMI:        147        132   Non-maskable interrupts
LOC:      70348      59679   Local timer interrupts
SPU:          0          0   Spurious interrupts
PMI:        147        132   Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI:          1          0   IRQ work interrupts
RTR:          0          0   APIC ICR read retries
RES:      20827      27012   Rescheduling interrupts
CAL:       1802       2767   Function call interrupts
TLB:       1875       1439   TLB shootdowns
TRM:          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
THR:          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE:          0          0   Machine check exceptions
MCP:          4          4   Machine check polls
THR:          0          0   Hypervisor callback interrupts
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

dmesg | grep -i video
1)
Code:

[    0.378029] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[    6.579368] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    6.614256] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Cam (090c:037c)
[    6.616059] usbco  registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[    6.616064] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

2)
Code:

[    0.338661] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[   11.048529] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[   11.049314] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input10
[   36.372066] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   36.908529] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Cam (090c:037c)
[   36.961726] usbco  registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   36.961733] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[   38.262977] systemd-logind[1547]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event5 (Video Bus)

dmesg | grep -i gma
1)
Code:

[    5.465696] gma500 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    5.465749] gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[    5.466125] gma500 0000:00:02.0: GPU: power management timed out.
[    5.958548] gma500 0000:00:02.0: allocated 1280x800 fb
[    6.402676] [drm] Initialized gma500 1.0.0 2011-06-06 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

2)
Code:

[   11.030830] gma500 0000:00:02.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[   11.030934] gma500 0000:00:02.0: GPU: power management timed out.
[   11.420011] gma500 0000:00:02.0: trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
[   11.420060] gma500 0000:00:02.0: trying to get vblank count for disabled pipe 0
[   12.016034] gma500 0000:00:02.0: fb0: psbdrmfb frame buffer device
[   12.016039] gma500 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
[   12.045847] [drm] Initialized gma500 1.0.0 20140314 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

The last output hints that some problem is indeed detected but I don't know what to do from here.

EDIT: forgot to mention that the Lubuntu boot menu screen (this one) presents no flickering issues.

Hello,
As of 2 days ago, I am having a new problem watching Amazon Prime videos with Flash Player. I'm running Linux Mint 13 on a Dell desktop, with Firefox 37.0.1 and Adobe Flash Player 11. I have a 7mbps internet connection.

The problem is that two days ago, the video quality on my Amazon Prime got stuck at 348 kbps. Prior to that, I was able to watch Prime videos in HD. Now, I can't.

Here are the things I have tried so far:
1. I restarted my computer and modem multiple times.
2. I ran multiple speed tests at speedtest.net to verify that my internet connection is working properly.
3. I went to YouTube and sampled a couple of 1080p videos to make sure I could view video properly on sites other than Amazon. I had no problem streaming the YouTube videos in HD.
4. I tried watching the same Amazon Prime video in Chrome with Pepperflash. This didn't work at all -- after the video finished loading, I got a black screen.
5. I cleared my Firefox and Adobe Flash caches. (For the Adobe Flash cashes, I first tried the Flash Player control panel. When that didn't work, I used the macromedia page he http://www.macromedia.com/support/do...manager06.html
6. I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe Flash multiple times from the software repository.
7. I manually deleted the .adobe, .mozilla, and .macromedia files so they would be rebuilt.
8. I verified that HAL is installed.

Does anyone have other suggestions? I did call Amazon last night, and eventually got a tech support person who is a Linux user himself. He checked the log and verified that I was able to stream videos at HD speeds as recently as 2 days ago. He said that usually the steps I took would fix the problem, so it might be an Amazon issue, but also said that if he tried to report it it would probably get bounced because I am a Linux user and Amazon does not support Linux. I asked him please to try anyway, but thought I would check here in the meantime.

Thanks.

New to Linux. Run with either Ubuntu Linux on USB or installed on Aspire laptop.
Problem: Chromium and Eclipse act like they are starting but no window opens.

For Eclipse, icon comes up, workplace prompt answered, icon reappears and counts down but no window comes up.
pstree shows that both Chromium and Eclipse have threads running.
Booting with same USB to different computer and all works fine.
Have used both 32 bit and 64 bit USB boot on 64 bit Aspire with no success.

Firefox comes up and works fine

In the (x)ubuntu updates, I keep getting chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra, which is part of the Chromium browser update. However, I don't have Chromium installed.

I do have Google Chrome. Is that the reason? But if so, how would they know I have Chrome?

Chromium browser in Mint 17.1 won't run videos. Message says need to update flash player. Can't seem to find the right update. Is there one out there?