GPU not recognized by current Slimjet and Iron browsers?

[gjuhasz]

Dear Slimjet/Iron/Chrome users,

Do you see any difference between the current Slimjet and Iron browsers in your own puplet?

It seems that in Slimjet (and Chrome) the gpu is not recognized and cannot be corrected in the browser settings.

See the attached screenshots and http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

Thanks in advance.

Have fun!

Regards,

gjuhasz

[666philb]

hi gjuhasz,

yes i've noticed the newest chromium based browsers no longer have hardware acceleration enabled . also you don't seem to be able to enable it in its settings . Version 73 has hardware acceleration working

[Mike Walsh]

@ gjuhasz/philb666:-

Have a look at this thread of mine from a while back:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114441

The flags might say they're 'switchable' (and act as if they are!).....but for Linux, at least, they've been disabled internally to the browser process. For us, they don't actually DO anything.....

The Chromium Project is promoted as a separate entity from Google.....but everybody knows it's simply Google's browser R & D department.



We're kinda stuck with that one, I'm afraid.....


Mike.

[666philb]

all chrome based browser now seem broken in bionicpup64.
opera
chrome
chromium
vivaldi
all of them now have absolutely zero hardware acceleration., and suffer from really bad screen tearing, even on high end systems.

version 73 of chromium, chrome and all the others based on that version did have hardware acceleration to some degree, and could stream 4k youtube at 60fps smoothly. Now they can't even stream 480p without tearing, even with an nvidia 1050ti. it seems all processing is now done with the cpu

if any of you have links for older versions of vivaldi, opera, chrome, (i have chromium) from about the time bionicpup was released. please post them here.

[666philb]

ok i now have ...

chromium 73.0.3683.86
opera 58.0.3135.90
vivaldi 2.3.1440.60
chrome 70.0.3538.77

all stream youtube perfectly. i'll package them and upload to bionics repo.

[OscarTalks]

I have vivaldi-2.3.1440.61 which you can try.
Also the older vivaldi-1.9.818.50 which was tail end of GTK2 for older pups for anyone interested.
https://yadi.sk/d/euoIiDRDqcFnK?force_show=1

[666philb]

thanks OscarTalks

[puppy_apprentice]

Google turned off GPU acceleration in their browser due to bad linux GPU drivers (in their opinion). I've read somewhere that there are versions for Ubuntu compiled with GPU accelerations:

For Ubuntu based Puppies try this:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

[666philb]

Google turned off GPU acceleration in their browser due to bad linux GPU drivers (in their opinion). I've read somewhere that there are versions for Ubuntu compiled with GPU accelerations:

For Ubuntu based Puppies try this:

Code: Select all

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/chromium-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

hi puppy_apprentice,

that is already available in quickpet although it has the problem of not being able to sign into your google account properly.

but all chrome based browsers from the time of bionicpups release had hardware acceleration anyway, the above chromium just added extra stuff and took even more load off the cpu.

anyway i've now uploaded opera, chromium, google-chrome & vivaldi to bionicpups repo. once they've been mirrored on nluug i'll update quickpet to point to only those versions .... and also make a post in the browser section with links and instructions

[666philb]

for anyone that wants to test .. try the latest google chrome, opera, vivaldi or chromium full screen streaming on youtube.

then try the versions here http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -bionic64/

[Mike Walsh]

Hiya, Phil.

Now I see what you want Chrome 73 for. So, here you go; Google-Chrome 73.0.3683.75 as an SFS:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6h3QI ... sp=sharing


Mike.

[666philb]

Hiya, Phil.

Now I see what you want Chrome 73 for. So, here you go; Google-Chrome 73.0.3683.75 as an SFS:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6h3QI ... sp=sharing


Mike.

thanks mike

i'll upload it to bionicpup64s repo

[Mike Walsh]

@ Phil:-

I also have the Opera 63 release I've just packaged up. It's running fine in Xenialpup64, YouTube and all.

You might want to try it out on your own set-up first, though.....see if you think it's worth uploading to the Bionic64 repo.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_f9dx ... sp=sharing


Mike.

[666philb]

hi mike

thanks but opera 63 has no acceleration for me . i think opera uses different version numbers to chrome.

i've sent you a PM.

[666philb]

here's a short video comparing chrome 73 & 76. this is the same for all browsers based on chrome
https://youtu.be/dT9MJZGAkRM