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It’s the GPU hardware that was the problem 😭. This post can be closed.

But happy ending: replaced the GPU and Bazzite installed flawlessly.

Credit to Clearwater who figured out the real issue early on.

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Possible big update Display port doesn’t seem to work. Could it be the GPU? (Tested while Cachy is installed)

Also nvidia-smi did not find anything, so checking drivers now.

I get the following error message:

amd_pstate: failed to register with return -19

And there’s more but then the screen turns into a creepy pasta gif looking thing of white and green shifting blocks, except for a few random letters.

But the issue doesn’t happen when I used a Garuda xfce I had laying around I used for an older PC (that was maybe too old for Bazzite?). That went into the installer and live iso environment without issues.

It’s a newish build I’m making for someone as a gift with the following hardware:

Asus Prime B550M-K AM4 microATX Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AM4

And a used Nvidia RTX 3060ti.

I have secure boot off I think (the Asus EZ bios is weird)

Update

I managed to install it using the text installer, but now it does this:

Then blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives me a terminal at least and I did just get-logs which gives me the following:

Is this a Wayland issue?

Update 2:

Not a Wayland issue. But tried installing Fedora Kiinoite to rebase it to Bazzite, but Fedora has the same issue Bazzite did when trying to install, only it doesn’t mention the Elf 19 error, and it frezzes allowing me to take a picture:

I really love Bazzite and run it on my own computer, but I’m starting to think it doesn’t really run on older desktop hardware.

Update 3: Updating Bios didn’t work…

Update 4:

Could not figure out how to install it. Cachy however has installed and loads fast, but also has the 720p porridge issue. Specifically, looks like this:

Wondering if Bazzite isn’t installing due to a GPU issue? Would explain why the text installer and terminal only mode worked

  • nutbutter
    1·
    vor 6 Tagen

    You can try Nobara with nvidia ISO and boot into the live environment and diagnose any issues, like by running nvidia-smi to see if your GPU is working as intended. Nobara is also based on Fedora, but simple, non-silverblue, non-atomic OS.

    If everything works as expected then there might be some compatibility issues with Bazzite. If so, then I would recommend sticking to Nobara. It is not the most stable OS, but you get almost every feature Bazzite has to offer. Also, Nobara is maintained by Glorious Eggroll, who also maintains a popular fork of proton, called proton-ge.

    Another thing I would like to mention is that I also bought a used 3060, recently, and faced some graphical glitches. I also bought a new PSU, and it had 2 6-pin connectors and one of them gave me those issues. Plugging in the other one solved it. I doubt if it was a PSU problem since it was new and rated Silver.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      vor 6 Tagen

      I’ve known about nobara but the lack of stability makes me nervous, since this PC is for someone who has never used Linux

      • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        vor 6 Tagen

        Definitely don’t recommend nobara for a Linux noob. Most unstable distro I’ve ever personally tried to daily drive.