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

Frank Zimmermann frank.zimmermann.berlin at freenet.de
Wed Nov 14 21:43:38 UTC 2018


Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2018, 22:13 +0100 schrieb Damjan Georgievski via
arch-general:
> > 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)
Wayland
> 
> maybe try another compositor, instead of the gnome one
> 
> 


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