| Summary: | Neon User Firefox hardware acceleration broken- live image OK, install not | ||
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| Product: | [KDE Neon] neon | Reporter: | Steve Zakulec <spzakulec> |
| Component: | Live/Install images | Assignee: | Neon Bugs <neon-bugs-null> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | jr, neon-bugs-null |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Neon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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firefox about:support from Neon Live
firefox about:support from installed version of Neon firefox about:support from Neon Live, 20240905 ISO firefox about:support from Neon Installed, 20240905 ISO |
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Created attachment 173403 [details]
firefox about:support from installed version of Neon
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firefox about:support from Neon Live, 20240905 ISO
Created attachment 173406 [details]
firefox about:support from Neon Installed, 20240905 ISO
When I run firefox from Konsole as my user, this shows up: [18640] Wayland Proxy [0x784f0d9bcf00] Error: StartProxyServer(): bind() error : Permission denied MESA: error: Failed to query drm device. libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen Based on a comment I saw in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kdeneon/comments/1en8lf9/anyone_else_seeing_this_security_message_after/, I disabled the Firefox AppArmor profile, and after a reboot, Firefox now shows the expected hardware acceleration & proper graphics driver. |
Created attachment 173402 [details] firefox about:support from Neon Live SUMMARY KDE Neon User images have different behavior around Firefox hardware acceleration live (works) vs installed (doesn't). STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Boot a Neon User live image (20240831-1334.iso & 20240905-0713.iso are ones I've used) 2. Connect to wifi, and open Firefox. 3. Go to about:support, and scroll down to Web GL 1 Driver Renderer, and note the driver name. 4. Install Neon to disk (I chose the replace a partition option because I have an existing Windows install). 5. Open Firefox 6. Go to about:support, and scroll down to Web GL 1 Driver Renderer, and note the driver name. OBSERVED RESULT Neon User Live image shows my Intel card, and hardware acceleration works- confirmed by installing intel-gpu-tools, and running intel_gpu_top and observing that Video goes above 0% usage when playing videos on Youtube. When I install Neon from the image, and then repeat this, Firefox instead shows me Mesa -- llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits) as the WebGL 1 Driver Renderer, and doesn't support hardware acceleration. EXPECTED RESULT Firefox should work the same as it does from the live image- hardware acceleration is supported & works, it just doesn't for unknown reasons once you install KDE Neon. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 6.0 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.8.0-40-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520, AMD Radeon M430 secondary in the laptop ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Lenovo Flex 4-1470 laptop Tested with neon-user-20240831-1334.iso & neon-user-20240905-0713.iso. I have installed enhance-h264ify, and switched just h264 & VP8 on (which doesn't seem to do much, because YouTube still offers AV1). I've attached the output of Firefox about:support from live & installed.