Snap firefox build fails while Linux mint firefox build works

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Snap firefox build fails while Linux mint firefox build works

carsonip opened this issue 10 months ago · comments

Creating this issue as a PSA.

OS: Linux Mint 21.2

I was previously using the firefox snap from Ubuntu on my Linux Mint. Firefox about:support showed vaapitest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection. while vainfo was all good. Figured it was something wrong with the snap build. Uninstalled the snap firefox and installed the stock firefox from Linux Mint and it is now all working!

Thanks for the great work.

Stephen · Answer 1 · Tue Oct 10 2023 15:04:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, snap releases are unable to access this driver since it's outside of the snap. I should probably add something to the README about that.