Activity log for bug #1805544

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2018-11-28 03:01:34 Paco Raxim bug added bug
2018-11-28 03:14:59 Daniel van Vugt affects xorg (Ubuntu) chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
2018-11-28 03:17:41 Daniel van Vugt chromium-browser (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2018-11-28 03:17:47 Daniel van Vugt bug added subscriber Daniel van Vugt
2018-11-28 03:24:15 Paco Raxim description Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) - USB management. I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. The problem less frequently happens on firefox, even if the CPU is hitting 80% mark.
2018-11-28 03:24:23 Paco Raxim description Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) - USB management. I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. The problem less frequently happens on firefox, even if the CPU is hitting 80% mark. Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) - USB mouse. I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. The problem less frequently happens on firefox, even if the CPU is hitting 80% mark.
2018-11-28 03:39:25 Paco Raxim description Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) - USB mouse. I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. The problem less frequently happens on firefox, even if the CPU is hitting 80% mark. Ubuntu version - 18.04.1 Gnome shell - 3.28.3 Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) - USB mouse. I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. The problem less frequently happens on firefox, even if the CPU is hitting 80% mark.
2018-11-28 03:39:55 Paco Raxim tags apport-collected bionic third-party-packages
2018-11-28 03:39:56 Paco Raxim description Ubuntu version - 18.04.1 Gnome shell - 3.28.3 Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) - USB mouse. I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. The problem less frequently happens on firefox, even if the CPU is hitting 80% mark. Ubuntu version - 18.04.1 Gnome shell - 3.28.3 Although there is a lot of chromium bug related to video playback, my issues seem to be related to the power management. (AMD M260 Topaz, HD5500) - USB mouse. I have disabled the diming / screen saver. I have set up GPU usage on chrome dev version. (M70 is not able to use the linux GPU built in drivers) I'm using usb tethering from Xperia as the wifi connection dies periodically and it seems to make chrome tab unresponsive, even if kept refreshing. I have a feeling similar issues happening on full-screen video playback. So the root cause is the same. Even if I set Xperia to wifi always on the ubuntu disconnecting from the device less frequently why I'm playing video in full-screen mode. Some flickering issue happens on non-full screen mode, but less frequently, and it's stable for half hour after the restart, but suddenly goes like crazy. I have tested lots of combinations, for example when mesa was not installed and my amd card was not even visible. (HD5500 does not have h264 hardware acceleration, amd m260 has, and on dev version it was really visible, that cpu usage was going down from 30% to under 10%) Some video needs more juice like 60-70%, but it does not really matter. Sometimes is very stable, sometimes not. The problem less frequently happens on firefox, even if the CPU is hitting 80% mark. --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-07 (477 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801) Package: chromium-browser 72.0.3610.2-0ubuntu1~ppa4~18.04.1 [origin: LP-PPA-saiarcot895-chromium-dev] PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-39.42-generic 4.15.18 Tags: bionic third-party-packages ThirdParty: True Uname: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-24 (95 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers video wireshark _MarkForUpload: True modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium-browser: [deleted]
2018-11-28 03:39:56 Paco Raxim attachment added Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805544/+attachment/5216879/+files/Dependencies.txt
2018-11-28 03:39:58 Paco Raxim attachment added HookError_chromium_browser.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805544/+attachment/5216880/+files/HookError_chromium_browser.txt
2018-11-28 03:39:59 Paco Raxim attachment added ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805544/+attachment/5216881/+files/ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt
2018-11-28 03:40:00 Paco Raxim attachment added ProcEnviron.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805544/+attachment/5216882/+files/ProcEnviron.txt
2018-11-28 03:40:02 Paco Raxim attachment added RelatedPackageVersions.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805544/+attachment/5216883/+files/RelatedPackageVersions.txt
2018-11-28 03:40:03 Paco Raxim attachment added RelatedPackagesPolicy.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805544/+attachment/5216884/+files/RelatedPackagesPolicy.txt
2018-11-28 03:40:27 Paco Raxim chromium-browser (Ubuntu): status Incomplete New
2018-11-28 03:50:23 Daniel van Vugt marked as duplicate 1690719