From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 3/31/2025 3:27 AM, Davey wrote:   
   > Booted up this morning, Ubuntu 22.04, In was using Firefox last night   
   > until I went to bed. This morning, all I could get was the spinning   
   > wheel, then nothing. Repeatedly.   
   > Tried 'firefox' from the command line, was told it didn't exist, but   
   > could be installed by 'sudo apt install firefox'.   
   > So what happened to the previous version?   
   > It installed firefox snapd, and luckily, all my previous tabs are still   
   > there.   
   > But the terminal shows unhappiness:   
   > 08:15:47.118: Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is   
   > provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it. libva info: VA-API   
   > version 1.20.0 libva info: Trying to open   
   > /snap/firefox/5917/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri   
   iHD_drv_video.so   
   > libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20 libva info:   
   > va_openDriver() returns 0 ^CExiting due to channel error.   
   > Exiting due to channel error.   
   > Exiting due to channel error.   
   > Exiting due to channel error.   
   > Exiting due to channel error.   
   >   
   > It did not finish the installation on its own, it left it hanging at   
   > 'Exiting due to channel error'.The 'unhappiness' means nothing to me.   
   > Channel error? Who he?   
   >   
      
   It could be that the line:   
      
   /snap/firefox/5917/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so   
      
   is erroneous. The software doing that, may be trying iHD first, in preference   
   to i965. Something like this before running it, may cause the driver   
   logic to stop trying iHD at all, and trying the driver your hardware   
   really uses.   
      
      export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965   
      
   A person doing that, was getting this from inxi -F. And in their   
   opinion, the i965 would be a better choice than iHD.   
      
   Graphics:   
     Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard   
     driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0166   
     Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: compton driver: intel   
     unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0.0 screens: 1   
     Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 99 s-size: 352x198mm (13.9x7.8")   
     s-diag: 404mm (15.9")   
     Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112 size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.7")   
     diag: 354mm (13.9")   
     OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)   
     v: 4.2 Mesa 20.1.8 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes   
      
   What is supposed to happen, apparently, is some piece of code tries   
   iHD first, and when that fails, it is supposed to try i965. Doing the   
   Export above, tries to get it to use the second one immediately.   
      
   *******   
      
   At some previous point in time, hardware acceleration was broken,   
   and Firefox users frequently had to find some preference (Configuration   
   Editor?)   
   to turn off hardware acceleration. Then it should stop trying for things   
   like the item above. If you can't get Firefox open, you can look for   
   prefs.js and edit with a text editor (that's the file that corresponds   
   to Configuration Editor).   
      
   The reason you might want it to use vaapi, is to reduce the loading on   
   the CPU, when playing a video. It's really hard on the CPU, to have   
   all the graphics operations go to fallback code. You need like a quad core,   
   to keep up.   
      
     Paul   
      
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