Chrome does not use hardware acceleration

[davidak]

Describe the bug

A lot of features are disabled at chrome://gpu/.

Use hardware acceleration when available

is enabled at chrome://settings/system and i have working drivers for my GPU.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. open chrome://gpu/
2. check if hardware acceleration works

Expected behavior

In best case, everything should work.

Additional context

I specifically need WebGL to test Third Room (matrix-org/thirdroom#330).

My GPU is an AMD RX 6600XT using amdgpu driver.

Also using:

hardware.opengl.extraPackages = with pkgs; [ amdvlk rocm-opencl-icd rocm-opencl-runtime ];

HW Acceleration for open source AMD driver is blacklisted by default. Ignoring the blacklist does not help.

https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists#Chrome_on_Linux

Workaround: It works out-of-the-box in Edge, so i used that for testing.

Notify maintainers

@primeos

Metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 5.15.67, NixOS, 22.05 (Quokka), 22.05.3065.178fea1414a
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.8.1
• channels(root): "home-manager-22.05.tar.gz, nixos-22.05, nixos-hardware, nixos-unstable"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

[zendo]

Try this:

(google-chrome.override {
      commandLineArgs = [
        "--ozone-platform=wayland"
        "--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder"
        "--use-gl=egl"
      ];
    })

[davidak]

@zendo that does not work because i don't use wayland.

[davidak@gaming:~]$ google-chrome-stable --process-per-site
[852646:852646:0925/065657.787716:ERROR:wayland_connection.cc(215)] Failed to connect to Wayland display
[852646:852646:0925/065657.787741:ERROR:ozone_platform_wayland.cc(220)] Failed to initialize Wayland platform
[852646:852646:0925/065657.787744:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.

and also when removing the first argument and adding some more i found at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Force_GPU_acceleration it does not work

    (google-chrome.override {
      commandLineArgs = [
        "--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder"
        "--use-gl=egl"
        "--ignore-gpu-blocklist"
        "--enable-gpu-rasterization"
        "--enable-zero-copy"
      ];
    })

here are some errors i get in terminal

[853172:853172:0925/065757.450955:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(486)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is egl, ANGLE is 
Error in cpuinfo: failed to parse processor information from /proc/cpuinfo
[853172:853252:0925/065817.516612:ERROR:platform_shared_memory_region_posix.cc(47)] Descriptor access mode (0) differs from expected (2)
[0925/065817.535506:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[854055:1:0925/065820.955719:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(128)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuControl.CreateCommandBuffer.
[854855:1:0925/065820.956200:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(325)] GPU state invalid after WaitForGetOffsetInRange.
[853128:853128:0925/065821.216586:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(965)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=133
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
[856674:856674:0925/065833.248438:ERROR:shared_image_factory.cc(795)] CreateSharedImage: could not create backing.
[857016:1:0925/065833.248474:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(128)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuControl.CreateCommandBuffer.
[856674:856674:0925/065833.248499:ERROR:shared_image_stub.cc(159)] SharedImageStub: Unable to create shared image
[856674:856674:0100/000000.702865:ERROR:raster_decoder.cc(1651)] Error: 1 for Command Noop
[856674:856674:0100/000000.703051:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(6002)] Error: 4 for Command SetBucketData
[853128:853128:0925/065842.390020:ERROR:page_load_metrics_update_dispatcher.cc(162)] Invalid first_paint 41.959 s for first_image_paint 33.274 s

these repeat many times...