Latest update disabled the video display on chrome related browsers

[FunkAndCode]

Hi everyone,

I'm just reporting that the last update introduced a little :banghead bug  :60:

I no longer have the video display on Youtube, Dailymotion etc with Brave browser, same with Google chrome.
But it still works fine on Firefox. I saw a similar topic but it's not related to tweaks for me (since I didn't use it)
Audio still works fine, images too it's only the video display that is fully white.

I hope it will be fixed soon, anyway have a good day all  :wave

[stevef]

There have been updates to both Linux kernel and Chrome on 18th/19th which doesn't help establish what is happening, but a recently updated Chrome installation (Version 123.0.6312.58 (official Build) (64-bit)) without any additional extensions on LL6.6 is playing Youtube video as expected for me.

Can you confirm

1) The results of these commands

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inxi

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cat /etc/llver

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inxi -GA -xxx

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inxi -r

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google-chrome --version

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find /boot/vmli*

2) Any extensions you have for chrome - open 'chrome://system' in the brower and expand the 'extensions' list

[FunkAndCode]

Thank you for the answer, this is my config:

inxi

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CPU: Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo E7500 (-MCP-)
speed/min/max: 1630/1600/2933 MHz Kernel: 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64
Up: 3h 57m Mem: 2050.2/3810.7 MiB (53.8%) Storage: 232.83 GiB (8.3% used)
Procs: 209 Shell: bash 5.1.16 inxi: 3.0.38

cat /etc/llver

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Linux Lite 6.6

inxi -GA -xxx

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Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2e32
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.4 driver: modesetting
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel G41 (ELK)
  v: 2.1 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:27d8
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-101-generic

inxi -r

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Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  1: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main restricted
  2: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates main restricted
  3: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy universe
  4: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates universe
  5: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy multiverse
  6: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates multiverse
  7: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  8: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy partner
  9: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted
  10: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security universe
  11: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
  1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64]
   https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxlite.list
  1: deb http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite/ fluorite main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
  1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main

google-chrome --version

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Google Chrome 123.0.6312.58

brave-browser --version

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Brave Browser 123.1.64.109

find /boot/wmli*

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/boot/vmlinuz
/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-101-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-82-generic
/boot/vmlinuz.old

I got no extensions on chrome, and I only have lunar reader on brave (I uninstalled it to test without it it didn't fix the bug

[stevef]

Thank you.
 
One suggestion would have been to get the system to boot the previous kernel (if available) to see if the older kernel worked with new chrome.
But I can't see 5.15.0.100 listed. Do you routinely remove old kernels ?
Do you have any recent restore points made with System Restore Utility (aka timeshift) for rollback testing ?

[FunkAndCode]

Hmmm I didn't make a restore point.  :022: I reinstalled ll6.6 from scratch maybe 3-4 days ago because I did deletie files I shouldn't have lol. I guess I'll have to wait the next update it might get fixed later

[Daveyboy]

Having experienced the same issues as yourself, I think I have now found the solution.

After googling the white screen issue I cam across this link and followed it's instructions to turn off Hardware Acceleration within Chrome and having done so this seems to have fixed my problem
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitio...creen.html

However, after hastily marking my issue as solved yesterday, only for it to reappear - I will wait 24 hours before re-marking it as "SOLVED" this time.

I hope this also works for you

[FunkAndCode]

Thanks, I too saw this solution on brave support forum but it didn't work for me  :dft004:
That's what I was going to say because it really didn't fix it earlier, but now it works  :dft002:
I won't try to understand this time and just gonna enjoy the result
Magic that's all that comes to my mind right now