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Ubuntu

Vulkan shows disabled on google chrome on Ubuntu but showed as enabled on fedora(same laptop)

R1PTIDE

11/18/23, 10:37 PM

Here is the screenshot on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Vulkan shows as disabled.

Now, the screenshot of Fedora where vulkan shows as enabled:

So, how do I enable vulkan on Ubuntu?

Edit 1:

Output of sudo lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Iris Plus Graphics G1 (Ice Lake) (rev 07)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 8a03 (rev 03)
00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Ice Lake Thunderbolt 3 USB Controller (rev 03)
00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP Integrated Sensor Solution (rev 30)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 30)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP DRAM Controller (rev 30)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 30)
00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 30)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP Management Engine (rev 30)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev 30)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 34be (rev 30)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 34bf (rev 30)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 34b4 (rev 30)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 30)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 30)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 30)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Ice Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 30)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX330] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: SK hynix BC511

Output of sudo find /sys | grep drivers.*00:02.0 :

/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ath10k_pci/0000:02:00.0
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/i915/0000:00:02.0

Edit 2:

Output of vulkaninfo

Also, I tried to go to chrome://flags/#enable-vulkan and set it to enabled but that just made chrome stop working completely.

4448

1 + 10

google-chrome

wayland

vulkan

22.04

user68186

11/18/23, 11:58 PM

Which graphics card do you have, Intel, AMD or NVIDIA? Which driver are you using in Ubuntu?

R1PTIDE

11/19/23, 5:10 AM

I have intel(i5-1035g1) and nvidia(mx330). I have not installed nvida drivers and have disabled nouveau. And it looks like I am using i915 driver for intel. Found using what [this link](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41817/linux-how-to-find-the-device-driver-used-for-a-device) says.

Hi-Angel

11/19/23, 9:40 AM

Does `vulkaninfo` on Ubuntu show your GPU?

R1PTIDE

11/19/23, 1:10 PM

Here is the ouput of `vulkaninfo` : [link](https://gist.github.com/ShramanJain/f062b3c9f0046e035eabb1033afdd1d1)

Hi-Angel

11/20/23, 10:21 PM

Thanks! Please, tag a `@user` you're answering to, otherwise they won't be notified. I looked at `vulkaninfo`, and I do see the GPU there, so ‍♂️ Another theory I have: it might be due to older Mesa. Ubuntu generally have older software, and the Mesa *(userspace part of graphics drivers)* you're using is 22.0.5, whereas on Fedora it is 22.1.7 or even higher *(depends on whether you're on 36 or 37)*. Chrome might be detecting the version perhaps didn't implement something crucial for them, and so disables by default. For Ubuntu there's a PPA with bleeding-edge Mesa, you might try it.

R1PTIDE

11/25/23, 7:00 PM

@Hi-Angel I tried using a PPA for newer mesa(kisak-mesa PPA) and my mesa version did get upgraded : `OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.2.4 - kisak-mesa PPA`. But, google chrome still shows vulkan as disabled in `chrome://gpu/`

Hi-Angel

11/26/23, 9:45 PM

Does Chrome still stops working if you enable vulkan at `chrome://flags/#enable-vulkan`? Also, if it does, can you try running it from terminal and see if there's anything interesting appears in the browser output? As a side note, for that kind of experiments you can run chrome as `HOME=/tmp/ google-chrome`, so any changes you do will only be stored in the `/tmp` dir, so you don't have to undo them later.

R1PTIDE

11/27/23, 7:03 PM

@Hi-Angel I tried enabling vulkan through `chrome://flags/#enable-vulkan` and it works now. ![terminal output](https://imgur.com/a/VY31tQk) The break in terminal is from when i set enable vulkan to enabled and click 'relaunch'

Hi-Angel

11/27/23, 8:18 PM

Nice, so… it's working :) I see one error about VAAPI. I presume you have enabled video hw acceleration but probably didn't install the drivers. You can test if it works outside the browser with `vainfo` command. Other errors Idk what are about. Either way, the problem with making Vulkan work seems solved.

R1PTIDE

11/28/23, 12:14 PM

@Hi-Angel Yes the problem with vulkan is solved. You replied as comment instead of answer so I don't know how to mark it as the accepted answer though. Thank you! :)

Score:2

Ubuntu

Hi-Angel

11/28/23, 2:52 PM

Per research done in comments, the problem turned out to be too old Mesa (a userspace part of graphics drivers) on Ubuntu. After upgrading to more recent Mesa version through kisak-mesa PPA, then enabling Vulkan in Chrome, it works now. Mesa version that Chrome Vulkan is proved to be working with is 22.2.4.

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Hi-Angel

7/14/24, 9:52 PM

@Bram what GPUs do you have, what Chromium version are you using?

Bram

7/15/24, 12:37 AM

I was on r114 and r115, but when trying google-chrome-unstable (116.0.5845.32) it worked. Thanks!

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