FS#71612 - Issues with firefox, chrome, skype and spotify after upgrading to kernel 5.13.4.arch2-1
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Opened by Alessandro Campagni (sciamp) - Sunday, 25 July 2021, 15:26 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Thursday, 14 October 2021, 21:51 GMT
Opened by Alessandro Campagni (sciamp) - Sunday, 25 July 2021, 15:26 GMT
Last edited by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro) - Thursday, 14 October 2021, 21:51 GMT
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I had some issues with firefox after upgrading today, but it turned out it wasn't a firefox issue. I'm running qtile and the firefox window was repeatedly flashing from half screen to full screen, it was also impossible to navigate anywhere because Ctrl+L was focusing the address bar but no characters were appearing while entering addresses. I fired up google chrome to start figuring out what was happening and I ended up with the same issues (chrome was actually slightly better because I was able to close tabs). I started worrying it was not a firefox problem: I had some issues with spotify (flickering) and skype (window constantly resizing). I then downgraded the kernel to a previous version I had in the pacman cache (linux-5.12.14.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst) rebooted and everything started working fine. I'm on an Intel core i5 11700K and using the integrated GPU Additional info: * package version(s) upgraded firefox-developer-edition (91.0b3-1 -> 91.0b6-1) upgraded linux (5.12.15.arch1-1 -> 5.13.4.arch2-1) upgraded linux-firmware (20210511.7685cf4-1 -> 20210716.b7c134f-1) upgraded google-chrome (91.0.4472.164-1 -> 92.0.4515.107-1) skypeforlinux-stable-bin (8.73.0.129-1 -> 8.74.0.152-1) Steps to reproduce: 1) upgrade to 5.13.4.arch2-1 kernel 2) open firefox 3) hit Ctrl+K, Ctrl+L 4) try to write something in the address bar Please let me know if you need more information :) Thanks |
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Closed by Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 21:51 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: 2021-09-05: A task closure has been requested. Reason for request: (as detailed in comment [0]) this was happening because I was using a non recommended driver [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71612#co mment202069
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 21:51 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: 2021-09-05: A task closure has been requested. Reason for request: (as detailed in comment [0]) this was happening because I was using a non recommended driver [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71612#co mment202069
Thanks,
Alessandro
But this time I realized I've been using the wrong drivers the whole time. As suggested in the Arch Wiki [0] I removed the xf86-video-intel package and everything started to work like a charm.
For comparison I was getting something like 35 FPS and now I got 60 FPS on glxgears
Thanks and sorry for wasting your time, I'm marking this as closed since I guess I was being the bug myself :)
[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/intel_graphics#Installation