Re: chromium flickering rectangle corruption (with workaround)

Paul Goyette <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 31 Dec 2025, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I think this is describedin the pkgsrc/www/chromium/README as
> kikadf@ pointed out to me.

Correction on filename.  Should be pkgsrc/www/chromium/files/README


>
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2025, David Brownlee wrote:
>
>> Just tried www/chromium under NetBSD 11 and the window appears to be
>> overwhelmed by flickering rectangle display corruption.
>> 
>> The console output includes many lines of the following:
>> 
>> ERROR:cc/tiles/tile_manager.cc:998] WARNING: tile memory limits
>> exceeded, some content may not draw
>> 
>> Running as "chromium --force-gpu-mem-available-mb=4096" appears to
>> avoid the issue - I don't know if that might give anyone insight into
>> an underlying issue...
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> !DSPAM:695591e794581508440658!
>> 
>> 
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