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Post by senioruser on Oct 11, 2021 17:37:20 GMT
Good day, I am using an old Dell Laptop Latitude D620 which is running 64bit. I have loaded Firefox and Palemoon and they are both working fine. When I select Bodhi Chromium the top of the screen is all messed up. This also appears on Bodhi AppCenter. I have attached 2 screen shots. If I remove Bodhi Chromium the the AppCenter appears clear?? Is this a Bodhi problem or maybe something to do with the graphics on the laptop??
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enigma9o7
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Post by enigma9o7 on Oct 11, 2021 18:09:17 GMT
As you guessed, this problem is due to chromium trying to do fancy stuff you old graphics processor (or perhaps driver) can't handle.
To resolve this, turn off hardware acceleration in chromium settings, then restart chromium. (No stadia for you!)
Mine is enabled in the above screenshot, but I do have to turn it off on my old athlon (nvidia 6100 and noveau driver) or have the exact issues you described.
If your graphics are too messed up to set it in Chromium itself, there is a command line option (I'd have to look up) to start chromium with it disabled so you can go set it permanently. Or edit your config file directly I think is possible too.
If you remove chromium, the appcenter menu shortcut is using a different default browser that isn't set (or able) to use hardware accelerated graphics. You can set that menu entry to open appcenter in a specific browser, or just open the appcenter website URL from your favorite browser in the first place...
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Post by senioruser on Oct 11, 2021 21:45:43 GMT
YES that was the answer. In Chromium I turned OFF acceleration and now it looks clean. AppCenter also is clean.
thanks for the quick response
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Post by Hippytaff on Oct 11, 2021 21:55:11 GMT
Glad it’s sorted. I changed the title to be a bit more descriptive for others who might have the same issue to be able to find the solution easier. 🙂
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Post by enigma9o7 on Oct 12, 2021 4:40:27 GMT
I'd be interested in the results of inxi -G, to see what gpu and driver you're using. I'm curious if its another old nvidia like me using noveau driver (cuz the last nvidia properietary that works with it (304) is too old for current bodhi), or what other hardware has this issue in chromium...
sudo apt install inxi mesa-utils # only necessary if you dont have already (but wont hurt to do again) inxi -F
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