Re: chromium flickering rectangle corruption (with workaround)

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 02:25:55PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 at 13:18, Robert Bagdan <kikadf.01%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > I added this workaround flag to the wrapper script with https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2026/01/08/msg337618.html, while I can't fix.
> 
> Ah - many thanks, and thanks again for maintaining chromium in pkgsrc
> - it's a godsend :)

I note I had to bump mine a little higher...

ksh$ cat .config/chromium-flags.conf  
CHROMIUM_FLAGS=" --force-gpu-mem-available-mb=256"

amd64, netbsd-10.1, with a...

genfb0 at pci19 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies product 164e (rev. 0xc4)
genfb0: framebuffer at 0xfce0000000, size 1680x1050, depth 32, stride 6912
genfb0: shadow framebuffer enabled, size 7087 KB

...which is a "Raphael (7000 series, Zen 4/RDNA2 based)" GPU, not yet
supported in netbsd.

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