With Intel 82Q963/Q965 video, mouse pointer freezes in Chrome

[John Hupp]

Henk, that was a sharp piece of thinking: Disabling Chrome hardware 
acceleration does indeed work around the problem!

Once the problem is known to be related to hardware acceleration, a 
Google search on:
     "web browser" "hardware acceleration" bug
produces many relevant results.  For instance, this March 14, 2014 
article: Video Acceleration Takes The Backseat On Chrome For Linux 
<http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYyMDk>

On 1/1/2015 3:50 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:
> Have you tried to switch off hardware acceleration under advanced 
> settings in chrome?
>
> Henk
>
> John Hupp schreef op 1-1-2015 om 02:52:
>> On 12/31/2014 5:44 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>> Hi, all.
>>>
>>> With an Intel 82Q963/Q965 integrated video chipset using the 
>>> default-selection i915 driver under 14.04.1, I find that the mouse 
>>> pointer freezes in Chrome in certain web sites.  It "reliably" does 
>>> this in the Chrome Web Store, for instance.
>>>
>>> I have no other solution at that point than to use the keyboard to 
>>> reboot.
>>>
>>> Firefox does not have the same problem.  And if I use a different 
>>> video card, Chrome does not have the problem.
>>>
>>> Anyone recognize the problem and have a workaround?
>>>
>>> --John
>>
>> I filed a bug report at Issue 445768 
>> <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Week%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified&groupby=&sort=&id=445768&thanks=445768&ts=1420076960> 
>> but I'm still looking for help with a workaround.
>>
>>
>
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