Chromium almost works on PP, two patches will get it!

moved from postmarketos.org#140 (closed)

By Alexey Min on 2021-02-28T04:02:55

On Wayland UIs one may also use Chromium's native Wayland support, as described in the ArchWiki. This would also solve XWayland oddities under Phosh. I don't understand much of the underlying stuff, but it seems that Ozone which powers this support isn't finished yet, so your solution might be better.

Edit: Nevermind, just tried it again and I have some weird input issues + in QEMU it doesn't seem to work at all.

By Alexander Brzoska on 2021-02-28T11:47:27

added type::feature + 1 deleted label

mentioned in issue wiki#59 (closed)

By Alexander Brzoska on 2021-03-08T10:33:04

Hey! I've just reevaluated Chromium on a clean (built last weekend) edge install with Phosh (on my PinePhone v1.2b), and it seems to work fine for me. Don't know exactly what change fixed it, but for reference, apk policy chromium yields:

chromium policy:
  89.0.4389.114-r0:
    lib/apk/db/installed
    etc/apk/cache
    http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community

There seems to be some error during start:

[4628:4628:0406/111814.802979:ERROR:gl_implementation.cc(283)] Failed to load /usr/lib/chromium/libGLESv2.so: Error loading shared library /usr/lib/chromium/libGLESv2.so: No such file or directory
[4628:4628:0406/111814.812980:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(150)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization

but it still works fine afterwards, so cautious no worries I think?

By Alexander Brzoska on 2021-04-07T17:46:36

Hmmm interesting! That error seems to be GPU acceleration? If that's disabled, CPU rendering is used.

By Dylan Van Assche on 2021-04-07T17:46:36

Could very well be: I tried this browser benchmark and Chromium only had a score of 1.04 while Firefox had 1.73. Funny enough, I don't notice much during normal use - scrolling is still rather smooth and page load time is fast enough (for me). But these are of course just observations, no objective benchmarks.

By Alexander Brzoska on 2021-04-09T13:57:38

Chromium almost works on PinePhone, two minor fixes will get it going. Add a file at /etc/chromium/local.conf with:

unset GDK_BACKEND

This is irrelevant since we're no longer setting GDK_BACKEND as it caused issues. Chromium seems to work just fine in Phosh now, so I'll close this.

By Newbyte on 2023-05-10T18:53:49

closed

Chromium almost works on PP, two patches will get it!

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