Re: chromium flickering rectangle corruption (with workaround)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

I think this is describedin the pkgsrc/www/chromium/README as
kikadf@ pointed out to me.


On Wed, 31 Dec 2025, David Brownlee wrote:

> Just tried www/chromium under NetBSD 11 and the window appears to be
> overwhelmed by flickering rectangle display corruption.
>
> The console output includes many lines of the following:
>
> ERROR:cc/tiles/tile_manager.cc:998] WARNING: tile memory limits
> exceeded, some content may not draw
>
> Running as "chromium --force-gpu-mem-available-mb=4096" appears to
> avoid the issue - I don't know if that might give anyone insight into
> an underlying issue...
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
> !DSPAM:695591e794581508440658!

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