[arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 21:13:52 UTC 2018


> I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox
> no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play.

what video? youtube?

works well here, on intel i7-7500U, KDE on X11 (modesetting driver)
with both 4.19.1-arch1 and 4.19.2-arch1

> I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.

are you running wayland, modsettings or the intel X11 driver (the X
modesetting is perhaps recommended)

maybe try another compositor, instead of the gnome one


-- 
damjan


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