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I have a HP Pavilion 15 au004tx with a Optimus video configuration (Nvidia GeForce 940MX + Intel HD Graphics 520) and Ubuntu Gnome 17.04. When I am displaying a video in fullscreen mode, the screen freezes (the sound is still playing). I have been looking for a solution on the internet and found out that I should turn off hardware acceleration on Chrome, but when I do that and turn a video to fullscreen mode, all the reds become blue and it still freezes, I think there is a driver issue.

Is there any known solution?

P.S: I have Bumblebee installed.

Sergiu
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  • @SirajusSalekin please read my question, I have tried that and got an unexpected result. I am using Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit) – Sergiu Oct 03 '17 at 06:57
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    my bad. Does this occur for both your gpus? Also, can you play on fullscreen on firefox? – Sirajus Salekin Oct 03 '17 at 07:38
  • @SirajusSalekin on Firefox everything works ok. I don't know if that occurs for both GPUs since I don't know which GPU it's using. – Sergiu Oct 04 '17 at 07:40
  • ok, i'm just saying on a hunch. Type `chrome://flags` in chrome, enable `Override software rendering list`, restart chrome and test. – Sirajus Salekin Oct 04 '17 at 08:32
  • @SirajusSalekin tested that, it goes back to the first behavior where the screen will freeze (without the reds turning blue) – Sergiu Oct 05 '17 at 07:19
  • install inxi by `sudo apt-get install inxi` then update your post with the result of `inxi -G` – Sirajus Salekin Oct 05 '17 at 07:24
  • @SirajusSalekin Graphics: Card-1: Intel HD Graphics 520 Card-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940MX] Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 driver: N/A Resolution: 1366x768@60.02hz GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 – Sergiu Oct 05 '17 at 07:41
  • do you have device drivers installed? your `inxi -G` result should show `driver: intel` or `driver: nvidia` like [this](https://imgur.com/a/3SzxN), but it shows `driver: N/A`. As a temporary fix for chrome, you can try [the solution here](https://askubuntu.com/a/752067/529404) – Sirajus Salekin Oct 05 '17 at 07:52
  • @SirajusSalekin I tried the suggested solution, I have the same result... I don't know what's wrong. Is there any way I can remove the installed drivers? Maybe that's the problem. – Sergiu Oct 06 '17 at 10:25
  • @SirajusSalekin I think it was a driver issue. I reinstalled my linux distribution, installed chrome and then went to chrome's settings and disabled hardware acceleration. Now everything works fine. – Sergiu Oct 07 '17 at 06:43
  • Glad to know it worked. Post this answer below, and mark your q. as solved please. – Sirajus Salekin Oct 09 '17 at 09:17

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