Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub

In comp.os.linux.misc, The Natural Philosopher  <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 11/03/2025 20:00, Eli the Bearded wrote:

Hardware: Surface Go 2 (which has only one USB port, hence hub)
Browser: Firefox, true for multiple versions over the last year
Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Kernel: 5.12.14-surface, with Surface specific hardware mods
X11 configured to use Icewm instead of whatever Ubuntu has as default
Hub is "uni" branded USB-C to 4 x USB3 A ports; IDs as "Generic":

I would suspect the hub.

Maybe, but I've found that usb-c to USB3 A hubs *with no other features*
are hard to find. I've gone through a few that had ethernet or HDMI or
both and would get quite warm with use, which is terrible when I just
want a mouse on battery power.

Is the hub separately  powered?

No, but the backup drive is. It should only be drawing power for the
hub itself and the mouse.

When Firefox is playing videos the power consumption will increase. I(t
may be that if the hub isn't powered, the computers power supply simply
cannot cope...

The hub works fine during more CPU intensive tasks like compiling or
video transcoding. And video playback in mplayer works just fine. I can
even play youtube downloaded videos in mplayer while transcoding and
there are no issues.

It's specific to Firefox playing the video.

Elijah
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has not tried other browsers