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[Kevin Keijzer <1463598@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Disabling WebGL is one thing, but disabling hardware acceleration
altogether causes horrible tearing with each and every driver. All
videos look terrible and even smooth scrolling is no longer acceptable.

I've received dozens of support calls from clients about how the latest
Chromium build is utterly broken, wasting hours of my life driving
around and setting up the Chromium Beta PPA everywhere.

Seriously, just enable the "Disable WebGL" flag by default instead of
completely compiling out GPU support on an LTS release. These kinds of
decisions are merely acceptable for daily 15.10 images, but certainly
not for enterprise releases.

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Title:
  Chromium 43 fails to use hardware acceleration

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After installing package chromium-browser 43.0.2357.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1089 hardware acceleration becomes disabled.
  I had no problem with previous chromium version.

  Console output:

  jose@jose:~$ chromium-browser 
  [3150:3191:0609/190556:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(134)] Failed to launch GPU process.
  [3150:3150:0609/190556:ERROR:url_pattern_set.cc(240)] Invalid url pattern: chrome://print/*
  [3150:3191:0609/190556:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(134)] Failed to launch GPU process.
  [3150:3191:0609/190556:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(134)] Failed to launch GPU process.

  chrome://gpu:

  Graphics Feature Status
  Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  Flash: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  Flash Stage3D: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  Compositing: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  Multiple Raster Threads: Unavailable
  Rasterization: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  Threaded Rasterization: Unavailable
  Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  Video Encode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
  WebGL: Unavailable

  Driver Bug Workarounds
  clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use
  count_all_in_varyings_packing
  disable_chromium_framebuffer_multisample
  disable_ext_occlusion_query
  disable_post_sub_buffers_for_onscreen_surfaces
  scalarize_vec_and_mat_constructor_args

  Problems Detected
  GPU process was unable to boot: GPU access is disabled in chrome://settings.
  Disabled Features: all

  - - -
  Actually GPU access is *not* disabled from settings. 

  Workarounds like "--disable-gpu-sandbox" or "LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1"
  didn't helped at all.

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