Unable to view youtube videos. It starts fine and 3 seconds later, total black screen nothing. In order to restart, I have to disconnect all wires and the battery and plug everything back in.
I have read many posts but I have not found answers yet.
Thank you very much for your assistance. Much appreciated.
Maggie56

I can't help you with the youtube, but google instant has changed to, it goes to another format, as in the search bar goes to the top of the page as soon as something is typed in.
Read around and it seems some others are experiencing similar.
All I can say at this stage is I've changed search engines to what seems to be statistically gaining in popularity;
https://duckduckgo.com/
https://duckduckgo.com/tour

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Hi Maggie56...

Welcome to the forum

I need some clarification, please be as detailed as possible: When you say "total black screen nothing," does that mean your entire screen or just the Youtube video? Also, why do you have to disconnect the cords and battery?

What is the brand and model (and model number) of your laptop? Also, if you would, please open a terminal and post the entire output of...

P.S. The purple font color was a nice touch.

Regards...

Also, when you say "Google browser," do you mean Chrome or Chromium (both browsers from Google) or something else?

I find I am unable to play youtube videos on my Dell laptop(model #PP29L) using Google Chrome.
The video starts to play with picture and sound, then the entire laptop screen goes black with no
icons showing. Power button doesn't shut down computer so I unplug everything including battery.

Hi...

Thank you for the additional information, however, I still the need the output I requested in my last post.

To open a terminal, follow the instructions listed here under "In Unity." Copy and paste the following command into the terminal window where the cursor block is located and hit enter...

Then copy and paste the entire output into your next post.

For the power button, you need to hold it down for a few seconds until it powers off, in case you didn't know this.

Thanks!

A couple more things you can try:
* Install Flash if you haven't done so already
* If Flash isn't working, then go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and make sure it is using the simpler HTML 5 player.
* Try using Firefox and see if anything changes.

Also, knowing what distro you use would help a lot.

I have the same problem on my Thinkpad T61s running slackware and google-Chrome Version 45.0.2454.15 beta (64-bit) the thinkpad is running OpenGL with Mesa DRI Intel 965GM video. My Kernel is 3.10.17. From Googling I found that this may be fixed with a newer Kernel. I haven't pursued it any further. I'm wondering what kernel you have and what video card.

why does anybody bother using Linux, if they then go out of their way to install Google Chrome on it?
I hope you are all aware that Chrome is "Give all my personal info to Google"-ware. (*)
Every distro has a packet management that gives you a choice of browsers, and most of them support flash.
Come on, at least choose Chromium instead of Chrome!

(*)
that too, but this is actually much more important:
"Google Chrome is a commercial closed source product made by Google which is based on the open source Chromium project."
in other words, chrome is not FOSS.
so why bother installing linux (=FOSS), only to then install chrome.

I appreciate your concern for my personal data. However, when I go to "www.google.com" I get no trackers. I go to "www.linuxQuestions.org" and google analyitics tries to load. That's not a browser problem is it?


I hope if the OP finds a solution they will share it, because I've tried every suggestion. It isn't my main computer so I just dropped it and moved on. I've had the problem since firefox 36.?.? so it's not a firefox 40.0.? problem.

Just as an aside, sorry no help to the actual issue, rather than trying to physically reboot have you tried pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or any F key 1 to 6). It's quite possible that just your windows manager has crashed and pressing one of those combinations will bring up a terminal where you can log in and either try to resolve the issues or, at the very least, type the following to restart cleanly:You will then be asked for your password.

A fully black screen makes me think this issue might be related to DPMS. I've had to deactivate DPMS in KDE with a script (KDE provides no mechanism for this, and it spontaneously re-activates when a new video is played or Handbrake is used).

The script is as follows (I run the "business" part as a chron job every minute to deactivate it again, in case it re-activates spontaneously):
Try deactivating DPMS in your Desktop Environment or using this script, and see if that helps...

Thank you for your help everyone especially about reboot

For future reference, please read here and here.

If your issue is resolved, please mark this thread as "SOLVED" by clicking on "Thread Tools" directly above your initial post. Thanks!

Regards...