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lapisdecor
Asked: 2014-08-09 14:01:53 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 14.04 Chromium causes black screen

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While using chromium normally, some URL's cause my computer to go black screen. Computer works fine but cant see anything. Can change to console using Ctrl+Alt+F1 but still black screen (I think the screen is shut down). I had to reboot using Ctrl+Alt+Del. Is this a chromium bug? The URL's in question seem to have some sort of animation. This is one of them:

http://www.spacecraftforall.com/

If you have some information on this bug or know how to fix it, please say something.

Thank You.

14.04

2 Answers

  1. You may try this and comment the result:

    1. open up chromium and type this in address bar: chrome://flags
    2. enable "override software rendering list" (the first item) then restart the browser.
    3. load the youtube or whichever website you were having problem on, and check whether you are having same problem. If yes then comment

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  2. Best Answer

    A workaround is now working on chromium 41.0.2272.76:

    • Go to the Costumize and control icon at the top-right of chromium (the triple bar icon)
    • Choose Settings
    • Choose Show Advanced Settings
    • Look for "System"
    • Untick "use hardware acceleration when available"

    I can now see and use the refered page without any known problem.

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