Firefly video rotation issue

[Camo81]

Video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kv2QVMMgRizKrjZIGVVMYK3QxkswTA9K/view?usp=sharing

Hi there, I have the following stack:

Model: ROC-RK3588S-PC V12 (Linux) SoC: Rockchip RK3588 GPU: Mali-G610 (Panfrost/Panfork) Kernel: 6.1.0-1025-rockchip OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (Joshua-Riek image v2.4.0) Mesa: Panfork 23.0.5 (git221210 — December 2022) Chromium: 114.0.5735.35 (rkmpp7 from jjriek/rockchip-multimedia PPA) Display: HDMI-1, 1920x1080@60Hz

The problem: I'm running a kiosk application in Chromium that plays video fullscreen. The display is physically mounted in portrait mode (9:16), so I need to rotate the output 270°. When rotation is applied, a visible vertical line artifact appears running from top to bottom, approximately 5cm from the right edge of the screen. Without rotation, the image is perfectly clean — no artifacts at all.

 

What I've tried (all failed to fix the issue):

1. CSS rotation (current method): Using transform: rotate(270deg) on the body element. The line artifact appears consistently.
2. xrandr rotation: xrandr --output HDMI-1 --rotate left — same vertical line artifact appears.
3. Kernel DRM rotation: Added video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60,rotate=270 to kernel cmdline in extlinux.conf. Parameter is visible in /proc/cmdline but has no effect — Rockchip DRM driver does not support the rotate parameter.
4. Chromium flags (tested individually and in combinations): 

   --disable-gpu-compositing — moved the line to the center of the screen

   --disable-gpu-rasterization / --disable-gpu-vsync — made it worse

   --use-gl=egl — no effect

   --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy — no effect

   --default-tile-width=1920 --default-tile-height=1080 — no effect

   --gpu-rasterization-msaa-sample-count=0 — no effect

   --force-device-scale-factor=1 — no effect

   --use-gl=angle --use-angle=gles-egl --use-cmd-decoder=passthrough — crashed Chromium

5. CSS GPU optimization properties: Tested translateZ(0), backface-visibility: hidden, will-change: transform on the rotation container — no effect on the artifact.
6. Chromium 132 upgrade: Installed chromium 132.0.6834.159-1~deb12u1+rkmpp from liujianfeng1994/chromium PPA. The vertical line remained, and video playback became unstable (freezing). Reverted to Chromium 114.
7. Mesa upgrade to Ubuntu noble-updates 25.2.8: Removed Panfork PPA and installed standard Ubuntu Mesa 25.2.8. GPU fell back to llvmpipe (software rendering) — no Panfrost support for Mali-G610 in standard Mesa. Display showed tearing in the center. Reverted to Panfork 23.0.5.

 

Conclusion: The artifact appears with any rotation method (CSS, xrandr, kernel) and persists across Chromium versions and various GPU flags. This strongly suggests the issue is in the Panfork Mesa / Panfrost compositing layer when handling rotated output on Mali-G610.

Has anyone encountered this issue? Is there a known fix or workaround? Would upgrading to Panthor (with kernel 6.10+ or the 6.1 backport) potentially resolve this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edited 3 hours ago by Camo81