| Summary: | www-client/firefox-98.0: Crashes with hwaccel + nouveau drivers | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Simeon Simeonov <sgs> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | gentoo, ionen, sam |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Simeon Simeonov
2022-03-13 14:07:24 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f0bcab291020e064d08220f5c260b1924ae5d0a0 commit f0bcab291020e064d08220f5c260b1924ae5d0a0 Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-03-14 16:14:44 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-14 16:26:17 +0000 www-client/firefox: add 98.0.1 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox/Manifest | 98 +++ www-client/firefox/firefox-98.0.1.ebuild | 1248 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 1346 insertions(+) I'm going to try and reproduce this tomorrow, but maybe https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/ef9d9b4804f31c7f55401ab50942a331e0c050b5 is related, which landed on 98.0.1. Maybe this could be related too given it started being used in the 98.0 ebuild?
--- gentoo-hwaccel-prefs.js
+++ gentoo-hwaccel-prefs.js-r1
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
/* Force hardware accelerated rendering due to USE=hwaccel */
pref("layers.acceleration.force-enabled", true);
pref("webgl.force-enabled", true);
+pref("gfx.webrender.all", true);
+pref("gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled", true);
98.0.1 didn't fix the problem for me. So, "works for me". I guess this is somehow related to nouveau and/or running a stable gentoo with unstable firefox.
As ionen mentioned, you should first try to disable the new hwaccel setting:
Modify /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences/gentoo-prefs.js to have
-pref("gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled", true);
+pref("gfx.x11-egl.force-disabled", true);
Then you should emerge mesa-progs with +egl +gles2 and see eglinfo. Check for any "failed" output to see your system supports and has a working egl. I guess it could also be that nouveau doesn't support recent enough gles? Try glxinfo| grep '^OpenGL'
You can try:
MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox
or emerging firefox with USE -hwaccel.
Anyway I'm thinking maybe gfx.x11-egl.force-disabled needs to be disabled again.
Thank you for the tip!
Firefox 98.0.1 stopped crashing on startup after setting:
ref("gfx.x11-egl.force-disabled", true);
Thanks for reporting back. Maybe for the next version we'll do
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if has_version x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau; then
echo "ref(\"gfx.x11-egl.force-disabled\", true);" >> prefs
else
echo "ref(\"gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled\", true);" >> prefs
fi
pkg_postinst() {
if has_version x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau; then
elog "You have nouveau drivers installed, it doesn't support required"
elog "EGL and therefore 'gfx.x11-egl.force-disabled' has been set for you."
fi
}
----------
Something like this then.
The problem with that is that you can't know if the target system will have the same video drivers as the system which built it -- i.e. it's automagic based on system configuration, just in a different way than usual. You'd need to add almost-no-op USE=video_cards_novueau or similar :( Good to keep a warning either way, i.e. I have a system with VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nouveau" where nouveau is typically not in-use. Yeah I also thought if it's kept as a "backup" in case nvidia doesn't work, would suck. Back to the drawing board then! (also need to remember it's related to hwaccel+nouveau with conditions) The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c6036664650f952b65dda40c7bffd8a5b5f44a05 commit c6036664650f952b65dda40c7bffd8a5b5f44a05 Author: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-03-23 12:59:24 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-23 13:05:03 +0000 www-client/firefox: add 98.0.2 - add a patch for dav1d-1.0.0, - add a warning for users with hwaccel+nouveau. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/835078 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox/Manifest | 99 +++ www-client/firefox/firefox-98.0.2.ebuild | 1256 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 1355 insertions(+) |
