Fedora 40 Workstation
Wayland
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-13700H (20) @ 5.00 GHz
GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics
My Workstation install never crashes, except for one instance which is so infrequent, it makes it difficult for me to troubleshoot.
The issue is related to Firefox and hardware acceleration. When watching video in Firefox, from any of a number of sites, my laptop will do a hard crash/reset. This might happen only once a week, more or less.
Here are the 2 scenarios (that I can determine) when it happens:
- Running the system installed Firefox, with intel-media-driver installed
- Using flatpak installed Firefox, which has Intel vaapi drivers installed by default.
The reset happens whether or not I tweak the browser settings, as mentioned in several places, to enable hardware acceleration.
When intel-media-driver is not installed, and I’m using the system Firefox, it never crashes. I am wanting to primarily use flatpak Firefox, so I would like to sort this out.
Thanks in advance for the assistance.