Hi,
This thread is about chromium issues and ways to maybe fix it !
Today chromium is not working out the box in Ubuntu mate for raspberry pi.
A bug was open and assign on launchpad months ago but nothing was fix yet. It is canonical fault not Ubuntu Mate to be clear.
So what can we do ?
I have 3 different solutions to fix it !
The first solution is to install chromium version from 14.04, it work but after some days chromium fail and need to be reinstall so work but unstable.
The second one is to install the new chromium package from Raspbian !
I manage to do it and it work very well and smooth but I have two issues.
First issue is all the images don’t display I think it is some problem with libjpeg64. This is a big issue to use it every day.
The second one is the video acceleration decoding don’t work. I have some errors. I suspect from long time there is a problem with ldconf libs but I am not sure.
The third one is to compile chromium from source ! Today the reason chromium don’t work out the box is a compilation problem. Packages are built with a tool chain using qemu on a x86_64 architecture. I suspect a lot that is there some gcc bug or bad flag for the compilation. That explains too why 14.04 version works and not 16.04 !
I am sure if it is compiled on arm architecture it will work.
So I will try to compile it on my rpi3 but I think it maybe don’t work because of only 1GB of ram. I will try to build it from USB hard drive with a big swap partition. If anyone have some device with armv7 architecture and at least 2GB of ram and Ubuntu maybe you can try it faster
I am interested if someone have time to do some experiments to fix the image display problem on the raspbian chromium version in a first time !
So somebody interested ?