[solved] chromium-browser rendering problems

[RgnadKzin]

this has been going on for the past several months.  sometime chromium is ok, and other times I get a text only rendering.  Attached is a screen print of facebook.

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I have tried reinstalling, rebooting, and cannot seem to overcome this problem.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[George Underwood Edwards]

I installed it and it won't run at all...

[T6]

"I have tried reinstalling, rebooting, and cannot seem to overcome this problem"

that looks like a config error, have you tried deleting the config settings of this web browser?  i don't have it installed because i use opera and firefox so can't say the name of the config

[KernelKarter]

I installed it and it won't run at all...

What error messages does it throw up if you execute it from a terminal.

-- Eddie

[RgnadKzin]

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Bandalarga]

i think your videocard drivers are causing problems

try this: link
otherwise, copy '  Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so ' into google

what version of mplayer you have installed?

[George Underwood Edwards]

I installed it and it won't run at all...

What error messages does it throw up if you execute it from a terminal.

-- Eddie

i never tried running chromium from konsole - don't know how to do that.
when i select it from the menu nothing happens. so i uninstalled it...

[T6]

to run a app from konsole open konsole and write the name of the app

if that doesn't help, you can verify what specific command is being used by editing the menu and copying the command and then pasting it to the konsole

[RgnadKzin]

i think your videocard drivers are causing problems

try this: link
otherwise, copy '  Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so ' into google

what version of mplayer you have installed?

This is not an mplayer problem, it is a chromium-browser problem.  Searching for the above text and chromium led me to a thread related to adobe flash problems.  I reinstalled flash.  No joy.

[T6]

mplayer uses vdpau and could give more information about the errors mentioned

what video card do you have?  what driver is using?

[RgnadKzin]

mplayer uses vdpau and could give more information about the errors mentioned

what video card do you have?  what driver is using?

Toshiba laptop
Vendor: Intel; Device: Mobile 954GM/GMS,943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
Driver: Vendor: Tungsten Graphics, Inc; Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL/ES version: 1.4 Mesa 7.11.2
Kernel module: i915

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[bradbva@localhost ~]$ mplayer -vo help                                     
MPlayer 1.1-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
        vdpau   VDPAU with X11
        xv      X11/Xv
        gl_nosw OpenGL no software rendering
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
        sdl     SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
        gl      OpenGL
        gl2     X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
        dga     DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
        fbdev   Framebuffer Device
        fbdev2  Framebuffer Device
        matrixview      MatrixView (OpenGL)
        aa      AAlib
        caca    libcaca
        dxr3    DXR3/H+ video out
        v4l2    V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
        vesa    VESA VBE 2.0 video output
        directfb        Direct Framebuffer Device
        dfbmga  DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550
        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)
        cvidix  console VIDIX
        null    Null video output
        xvmc    XVideo Motion Compensation
        mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card
        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
        gif89a  animated GIF output
        tga     Targa output
        pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
        md5sum  md5sum of each frame
        mng     MNG file


[CaptainSarcastic]

I'm running Chromium with no issues, and have for quite a long time now.

Do you have the Nvidia drivers installed on your system?  Since they aren't needed, I'd suggest using Synaptic to remove the video drivers you don't need.  I tend to do this as a matter of course, and since the message you are getting references Nvidia then it would seem to be a reasonable thing to do.

Also, have you turned off hardware acceleration in Flash?  If not, I'd recommend doing that, too.

[RgnadKzin]

Do you have the Nvidia drivers installed on your system?  Since they aren't needed, I'd suggest using Synaptic to remove the video drivers you don't need.  I tend to do this as a matter of course, and since the message you are getting references Nvidia then it would seem to be a reasonable thing to do.

done. no joy

Also, have you turned off hardware acceleration in Flash?  If not, I'd recommend doing that, too.

don't know how to do that. lead me.

[T6]

open youtube, in there open any video

while it is playing, right click on the video/settings

in the first tab, uncheck hardware acceleration

close web browser and reopen it to make settings apply

i ignore if this helps here, i still think that you should delete configs from the browser but save bookmarks first

[RgnadKzin]

open youtube, in there open any video

while it is playing, right click on the video/settings

in the first tab, uncheck hardware acceleration

close web browser and reopen it to make settings apply

i ignore if this helps here, i still think that you should delete configs from the browser but save bookmarks first

I cannot do anything in youtube.com from chrome, as it renders only flat text.
I used firefox to change the flash settings.  opened chrome again. no joy.
I shudder to think about what would happen if I deleted the entire .config/chromium directory and all subdirectories.  bookmarks is not all I would lose.